Native American vs Hokan

Hokan vs Native American

Native American and Hokan both are nouns.

Native American is an adjective but Hokan is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, Hokan is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Hokan 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
Hokan: a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages

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

Native American (noun)	Hokan (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	a family of Amerindian languages spoken in California
	a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages

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

Difference between Native American and Hokan

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