Asian vs Indian

Indian vs Asian

Asian and Indian both are nouns.

Asian and Indian both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian	Yes	Yes	No	No
Indian	Yes	Yes	No	No

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

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
Indian: a native or inhabitant of India

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, cooly, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Eurasian, Afghan, Afghanistani, Altaic, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Bengali, Bhutanese, Bhutani, Burmese, Byzantine, Cambodian, Kampuchean, Chinese, East Indian, Malay, Malayan, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani, Hmong, Miao, Indonesian, Irani, Iranian, Persian, Iraki, Iraqi, Israelite, Israeli, Japanese, Nipponese, Jordanian, Korean, Kurd, Kuwaiti, Lao, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivan, Maldivian, Nepalese, Nepali, Pakistani, Parthian, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Sherpa, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tadzhik, Tajik, Siamese, Tai, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese, oriental person.

Asian (noun)	Indian (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
	a native or inhabitant of India

Asian (adjective)	Indian (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture	of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures
	of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages

Difference between Asian and Indian

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