Japhetic
[ juh-fet-ik ]
/ dʒəˈfɛt ɪk /
adjective
of or relating to Japheth.
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.
Example sentences from the Web for japhetic
The language he called Median, and classified it in “the Scythian, rather than in the Japhetic family.”
The Medes were of the Aryan or Japhetic stock, and were always a warlike and independent people.
The Rand-McNally Bible Atlas |Jesse L. HurlbutThe Aryans would have been noble as being of the Japhetic race.
Tradition |John Francis ArundellThe words Japhetic and Shemitic are also employed in a sense somewhat different from that which common usage has assigned them.
The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races |Arthur, comte de Gobineau
British Dictionary definitions for japhetic
Japhetic
/ (dʒeɪˈfɛtɪk) /
adjective
denoting a discredited grouping of languages that postulated a relationship between Basque, Etruscan, and Georgian among others
Word Origin for Japhetic
C19: from New Latin
Japheti descendants of
Japheth +
-ic