Japhet

Japhet, according to the Hebrew record, the second son of Noah, whose descendants peopled first the north and west of Asia, after which they proceeded to occupy the 'isles of the Gentiles.' The term Japhetic or Japetic was at one time used loosely for peoples of the European stock (nearly as Aryan and Indo-European now) as opposed to Semitic and Hamitic (Asiatic and African). See ETHNOLOGY, PHILOLOGY.