African vs Berber

Berber vs African

African and Berber both are nouns.

African is an adjective but Berber is not an adjective.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Berber: a member of an indigenous people of northern Africa

Other hyponyms of African include Black African, Eurafrican, Algerian, Angolan, Basotho, 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.

African (noun)	Berber (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco
	a member of an indigenous people of northern Africa

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

Difference between African and Berber

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