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In Arabic citations, his name is normally given as Yafeth (يافث) ibnu Nuh (Japheth son of Noah). For those s," commonly believed to be the Greek isles. According to that book, Japheth and his two Brothers formed the three major Race s:
The term "Japhetic" was also applied by William Jones and other pre- Darwinian Linguist s to what later became known as the Indo-European language group. In a different sense, it was also used by the Soviet linguist Nikolai Marr in his Japhetic Theory . In the Bible, Japheth is ascribed seven sons: Gomer , Magog , Tiras , Javan , Meshech , Tubal , and Madai . According to Josephus ('' Antiquities Of The Jews '' I.6): :"Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons: they inhabited so, that, beginning at the mountains Taurus and Amanus , they proceeded along Asia, as far as the river Tanais (Don), and along Europe to Cadiz ; and settling themselves on the lands which they light upon, which none had inhabited before, they called the nations by their own names." Josephus subsequently detailed the nations supposed to have descended from the seven sons of Japheth. Among the nations various later writers have attempted to assign to them are as follows:
In the same vein, Georgia n nationalist histories associate Japheth's sons with certain ancient tribes, called Tubal s ( Tabal s, ''Tibarenoi'' in Greek) and Meshech s (Meshekhs/Mosokhs, ''Moschoi'' in Greek), who they claim represent non-Indo-European and non-Semitic, possibly "Proto-Iberian" tribes of Asia Minor of the 3rd - 1st Millennias BC .
William Shakespeare 's play '' Henry IV, Part II '' contains a wry comment about people who claim to be related to royal families. Prince Hal notes of such people, ...they will be kin to us, or they will fetch it from Japhet. Genesis 10:5 was often interpreted to mean that the peoples of Europe were descended from Japheth. Clearly, then, any two Englishmen must have at least this one ancestor in common, and thus any individual could claim kinship with the king. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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