African vs Chewa

Chewa vs African

African and Chewa both are nouns.

African is an adjective but Chewa is not an adjective.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Chewa: a member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe

Other hyponyms of African include Black African, Eurafrican, Algerian, Angolan, Basotho, Bantu, Beninese, Burundian, Cameroonian, Carthaginian, Chadian, Cewa, 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)	Chewa (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe

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

Difference between African and Chewa

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