American Indian vs Athapaskan

Athapaskan vs American Indian

American Indian and Athapaskan both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
American Indian	Yes	No	No	No
Athapaskan	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Athapaskan is a hyponym of American Indian; that is, Athapaskan is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than American Indian:

American Indian: any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
Athapaskan: a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)

Other hyponyms of American Indian include Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin, Atakapa, Atakapa language, Atakapan, Atakapan language, Attacapa, Attacapa language, Attacapan, Attacapan language, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan language, Muskhogean, Muskhogean language, Muskogean, Muskogean language, Na-Dene, Mosan, Caddo, Caddoan, Caddoan language, Iroquoian, Iroquoian language, Iroquois, Kechua, Kechua language, Kechuan, Kechuan language, Quechua, Quechua language, Quechuan, Quechuan language, Maracan language, Maraco, Maraco language, Tupi-Guarani, Tupi-Guarani language, Arawak, Arawakan, Carib, Caribbean language, Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztecan language, Maya, Mayan, Mayan language, Siouan, Siouan language, Tanoan, Tanoan language, Hoka, Hokan, Penutian.

American Indian (noun)	Athapaskan (noun)
any of the languages spoken by Amerindians	a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
	a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska

Difference between American Indian and Athapaskan

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