Amerindian vs Athapascan

Athapascan vs Amerindian

Amerindian and Athapascan both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Amerindian	Yes	No	No	No
Athapascan	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Athapascan is a hyponym of Amerindian; that is, Athapascan is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Amerindian:

Amerindian: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
Athapascan: 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

Other hyponyms of Amerindian include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapaskan, Maya, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, Zapotec, Zapotecan, Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Haida, Hoka, Hokan, Iroquois, Muskhogean, Muskogean, Penutian, Pueblo, Injun, red man, Redskin, Salish, Shoshone, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Wakashan, South American Indian, Carib, Carib Indian, Aleut, Aleutian, Arawak, Arawakan, Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit, Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian, sannup, squaw, Red Indian.

Amerindian (noun)	Athapascan (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	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 Amerindian and Athapascan

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