Athapascan vs Native American

Native American vs Athapascan

Athapascan and Native American both are nouns.

Athapascan is not an adjective while Native American is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Athapascan	Yes	No	No	No
Native American	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Native American is a hypernym of Athapascan; that is, Native American is a word with a broader meaning than Athapascan:

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
Native American: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived

Other hypernyms of Athapascan include Amerindian.

Athapascan (noun)	Native American (noun)
a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)	any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
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

Athapascan (adjective)	Native American (adjective)
	of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages

Difference between Athapascan and Native American

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.