Native American vs Zapotec

Zapotec vs Native American

Native American and Zapotec both are nouns.

Native American and Zapotec both are adjectives.

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

As nouns, Zapotec is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Zapotec 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
Zapotec: a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900

Other hyponyms of Native American include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Maya, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, 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, Arawakan, Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit, Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian, sannup, squaw, Red Indian.

Native American (noun)	Zapotec (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	the language of the Zapotec
	a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900

Native American (adjective)	Zapotec (adjective)
of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages	of or relating to the language or culture of the Zapotec people

Difference between Native American and Zapotec

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