African vs Basotho

Basotho vs African

African and Basotho both are nouns.

African is an adjective but Basotho is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
African	Yes	Yes	No	No
Basotho	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Basotho is a hyponym of African; that is, Basotho is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than African:

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Basotho: a member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho

Other hyponyms of African include Black African, Eurafrican, Algerian, Angolan, Bantu, Beninese, Burundian, Cameroonian, Carthaginian, Chadian, Cewa, Chewa, Chichewa, Congolese, Djiboutian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Ewe, Fellata, Fula, Fulah, Fulani, Fulbe, Gabonese, Kenyan, Liberian, Libyan, Madagascan, Malawian, Malian, Mauritanian, Moroccan, Mozambican, Namibian, Nigerian, Nigerien, Senegalese, Sierra Leonean, South African, Sudanese, Swazi, Tanzanian, Togolese, Tuareg, Tunisian, Ugandan, Gambian, Ghanian, Guinean, Rwandan, Somali, Somalian, Xhosa, Zairean, Zairese, Zambian, Zimbabwean, Zulu, Berber.

African (noun)	Basotho (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho

African (adjective)	Basotho (adjective)
of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples

Difference between African and Basotho

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