Native American vs Tlingit

Tlingit vs Native American

Native American and Tlingit both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Tlingit is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Tlingit 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
Tlingit: a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska

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, 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)	Tlingit (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	the Na-Dene language spoken by the Tlingit
	a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska

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

Difference between Native American and Tlingit

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