Native American vs Penutian

Penutian vs Native American

Native American and Penutian both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Penutian is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Penutian 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
Penutian: a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian 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, Muskogean, 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)	Penutian (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California
	a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages

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

Difference between Native American and Penutian

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