Japhetic

adjective

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

noun

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Definition of Japhetic (Entry 2 of 2)

1 : the Japhetic languages

2 : a Japhetic language