African vs Somali

Somali vs African

African and Somali both are nouns.

African and Somali both are adjectives.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Somali: a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia

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, 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, Somalian, Xhosa, Zairean, Zairese, Zambian, Zimbabwean, Zulu, Berber.

African (noun)	Somali (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	the Cushitic language spoken by the Somali
	a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia

African (adjective)	Somali (adjective)
of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples	of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture

Difference between African and Somali

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