Maya vs Native American

Native American vs Maya

Maya and Native American both are nouns.

Maya is not an adjective while Native American is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Maya	Yes	No	No	No
Native American	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Native American is a hypernym of Maya; that is, Native American is a word with a broader meaning than Maya:

Maya: a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy
Native American: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived

Other hypernyms of Maya include Amerindian.

Maya (noun)	Native American (noun)
a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayas	any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
an ethnic minority speaking Mayan languages and living in Yucatan and adjacent areas
a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy

Maya (adjective)	Native American (adjective)
	of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages

Difference between Maya and Native American

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