African vs Fulah

Fulah vs African

African and Fulah both are nouns.

African is an adjective but Fulah is not an adjective.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Fulah: a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith

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, 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)	Fulah (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith

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

Difference between African and Fulah

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