African vs Zulu

Zulu vs African

African and Zulu both are nouns.

African is an adjective but Zulu is not an adjective.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Zulu: a member of the tall Negroid people of eastern South Africa; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional clan system but many now work in the cities

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

African (noun)	Zulu (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa
	a community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa
	a member of the tall Negroid people of eastern South Africa; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional clan system but many now work in the cities

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

Difference between African and Zulu

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