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Ja·phet·ic | \ jəˈfetik, (ˈ)jā¦f- \
Definition of Japhetic
(Entry 1 of 2)
1 : relating to or derived from Japheth who was a son of Noah —used vaguely as an ethnological epithet for the Caucasians of Europe and some adjacent parts of Asia
2 : of, relating to, or constituting a group of early non-Indo-European languages in Europe and western Asia assumed by some to form one family with the Caucasian languages and including Basque, Etruscan, Minoan, and sometimes Sumerian and Elamite — compare asianic
Japhetic
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Definition of Japhetic (Entry 2 of 2)
1 : the Japhetic languages
2 : a Japhetic language
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