African vs South African

South African vs African

African and South African both are nouns.

African and South African both are adjectives.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
South African: a native or inhabitant of South Africa

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, Sudanese, Swazi, Tanzanian, Togolese, Tuareg, Tunisian, Ugandan, Gambian, Ghanian, Guinean, Rwandan, Somali, Somalian, Xhosa, Zairean, Zairese, Zambian, Zimbabwean, Zulu, Berber.

African (noun)	South African (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a native or inhabitant of South Africa

African (adjective)	South African (adjective)
of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples	of or pertaining to or characteristic of South Africa or its people

Difference between African and South African

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