African vs Cameroonian

Cameroonian vs African

African and Cameroonian both are nouns.

African and Cameroonian both are adjectives.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Cameroonian: a native or inhabitant of Cameroon

Other hyponyms of African include Black African, Eurafrican, Algerian, Angolan, Basotho, Bantu, Beninese, Burundian, 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)	Cameroonian (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a native or inhabitant of Cameroon

African (adjective)	Cameroonian (adjective)
of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples	of or relating to or characteristic of Cameroon or its people

Difference between African and Cameroonian

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.