Native American vs Muskogean

Muskogean vs Native American

Native American and Muskogean both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Muskogean is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Muskogean 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
Muskogean: a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean 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, Hokan, Iroquois, Muskhogean, 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)	Muskogean (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States
	a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages

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

Difference between Native American and Muskogean

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