African vs Fulani

Fulani vs African

African and Fulani both are nouns.

African is an adjective but Fulani is not an adjective.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Fulani: 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, Fulah, 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)	Fulani (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages
	a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith

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

Difference between African and Fulani

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