African vs Fulbe

Fulbe vs African

African and Fulbe both are nouns.

African is an adjective but Fulbe is not an adjective.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Fulbe: 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, Fulani, 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)	Fulbe (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)	Fulbe (adjective)
of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples

Difference between African and Fulbe

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