African vs Somalian

Somalian vs African

African and Somalian both are nouns.

African and Somalian both are adjectives.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Somalian: 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, Somali, Xhosa, Zairean, Zairese, Zambian, Zimbabwean, Zulu, Berber.

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

African (adjective)	Somalian (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 Somalian

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