Indo-European vs Anatolian language

Anatolian language vs Indo-European

Indo-European and Anatolian language both are nouns.

Indo-European is an adjective but Anatolian language is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Indo-European	Yes	Yes	No	No
Anatolian language	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Anatolian language is a hyponym of Indo-European; that is, Anatolian language is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Indo-European:

Indo-European: the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
Anatolian language: an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European

Other hyponyms of Indo-European include PIE, Proto-Indo European, Proto-Indo European language, Albanian, Albanian language, Armenian, Armenian language, Illyrian, Thraco-Phrygian, Balto-Slavic, Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavonic, Germanic, Germanic language, Celtic, Celtic language, Italic, Italic language, Tocharian, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Iranian language, Anatolian, Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic language, Centum language.

Indo-European (noun)	Anatolian language (noun)
the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia	an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European
a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European

Indo-European (adjective)	Anatolian language (adjective)
of or relating to the former Indo-European people
of or relating to the Indo-European language family

Difference between Indo-European and Anatolian language

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