Japhetic

American  

[juh-fet-ik] / dʒəˈfɛt ɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to Japheth.

2. of or relating to a hypothesized group of languages of the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and southern Europe, including the Caucasian languages, Sumerian, Basque, and Etruscan, formerly thought by some to represent a stage in language development that preceded the development of Indo-European and Semitic.

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Japhetic British  

/ dʒeɪˈfɛtɪk /

adjective

1. denoting a discredited grouping of languages that postulated a relationship between Basque, Etruscan, and Georgian among others

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Etymology

Origin of Japhetic

First recorded in 1820–30; Japhet(h) + -ic, on the model of Hamitic, Semitic

Example Sentences

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Japhetic

According to this table the Egyptians were descended from Ham, the son of Noah, and were consequently of the same original stock with the Japhetic and Semitic nations.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke

The Indian scalp-lock is found on the Egyptian monuments as one of the characteristics of the Japhetic Libyans, who shaved all the head except one lock in the middle.

From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly

But I will go further in my deductions, and I will affirm that this specimen of the human family is of the Japhetic race, which has since spread from the Indies to the Atlantic.

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne

They not improbably represent in more or less altered forms the most primitive stock of language from which both the Semitic and Japhetic groups have branched.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson

It was usual formerly to speak of Japhetic, Hamitic and Semitic languages.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller