African vs Xhosa

Xhosa vs African

African and Xhosa both are nouns.

African is an adjective but Xhosa is not an adjective.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Xhosa: a member of the Negroid people of southern 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, South African, Sudanese, Swazi, Tanzanian, Togolese, Tuareg, Tunisian, Ugandan, Gambian, Ghanian, Guinean, Rwandan, Somali, Somalian, Zairean, Zairese, Zambian, Zimbabwean, Zulu, Berber.

African (noun)	Xhosa (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a Bantu language closely related to Zulu, it is the second most common home language in South Africa
	a community of Negroid people in southern South Africa
	a member of the Negroid people of southern South Africa

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

Difference between African and Xhosa

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