African vs Egyptian

Egyptian vs African

African and Egyptian both are nouns.

African and Egyptian both are adjectives.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Egyptian: a native or inhabitant of Egypt

Other hyponyms of African include Black African, Eurafrican, Algerian, Angolan, Basotho, Bantu, Beninese, Burundian, Cameroonian, Carthaginian, Chadian, Cewa, Chewa, Chichewa, Congolese, Djiboutian, 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)	Egyptian (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC
	a native or inhabitant of Egypt

African (adjective)	Egyptian (adjective)
of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples	of or relating to or characteristic of Egypt or its people or their language

Difference between African and Egyptian

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