Amerindian vs Muskhogean

Muskhogean vs Amerindian

Amerindian and Muskhogean both are nouns.

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

As nouns, Muskhogean is a hyponym of Amerindian; that is, Muskhogean 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
Muskhogean: a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages

Other hyponyms of Amerindian include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Maya, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, Zapotec, Zapotecan, Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Haida, Hoka, Hokan, Iroquois, 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)	Muskhogean (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States
	a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages

Difference between Amerindian and Muskhogean

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