Native American vs Arawakan

Arawakan vs Native American

Native American and Arawakan both are nouns.

Native American and Arawakan both are adjectives.

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

As nouns, Arawakan is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Arawakan is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Native American:

Native American: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
Arawakan: a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America

Other hyponyms of Native American 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, Muskhogean, Muskogean, Penutian, Pueblo, Injun, red man, Redskin, Salish, Shoshone, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Wakashan, South American Indian, Carib, Carib Indian, Aleut, Aleutian, Arawak, Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit, Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian, sannup, squaw, Red Indian.

Native American (noun)	Arawakan (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America
	a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America

Native American (adjective)	Arawakan (adjective)
of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages	of or relating to the peoples who speak the language of the Arawak

Difference between Native American and Arawakan

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