Native American vs Zapotecan

Zapotecan vs Native American

Native American and Zapotecan both are nouns.

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

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

As nouns, Zapotecan is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Zapotecan 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
Zapotecan: 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, Zapotec, 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)	Zapotecan (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)	Zapotecan (adjective)
of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages

Difference between Native American and Zapotecan

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