Asian vs Tajik

Asian and Tajik both are nouns.

Asian is an adjective but Tajik is not an adjective.

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

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

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
Tajik: a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, cooly, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Indian, 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, Siamese, Tai, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese, oriental person.

Asian (noun)	Tajik (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	the Iranian language of the Tajik that is closely related to Farsi; spoken in Iran and Tajikistan
	an ethnic group (mostly Muslim) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China
	a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet
	a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China

Asian (adjective)	Tajik (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture

Difference between Asian and Tajik

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