African vs Tuareg

Tuareg vs African

African and Tuareg both are nouns.

African is an adjective but Tuareg is not an adjective.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Tuareg: a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara

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, Tunisian, Ugandan, Gambian, Ghanian, Guinean, Rwandan, Somali, Somalian, Xhosa, Zairean, Zairese, Zambian, Zimbabwean, Zulu, Berber.

African (noun)	Tuareg (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	the dialect of Berber spoken by the Tuareg
	a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara

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

Difference between African and Tuareg

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