"People of color"

[Victor]

Of course, most fun can be had with "Japhethic". Precisely what that is
would have to be left to Marrists. (If I recall my Stalinist linguistic
theories correctly, this was the supposed pre-IE connection between the
"mountain" languages, including the Karvelian languages, Etruscan and
Basque, and Semitic languages.)

Has anyone else used "Japhetic"? Wiki claims that both "Hamitic" and
"Japhetic" "have passed into obscurity"--speaking of rewrites, Wiki
linguistic entries need a lot of work. At the same time Wiki says that
"Japhetic languages" should not be "confused with the Japhetic theory",
but this "confusion" only makes sense if there is alternative use of
"Japhetic".

    VS-)

Herb Stahlke wrote:
> And for a scholarly and delightful account of the knots people have
> tied themselves in over racial terms derived from Noah's sons, by all
> means read Edith Sanders' The Hamitic Hypothesis:  Its Origin and
> Function in Time Perspective, Journal of African History, Vol. 10, No.
> 4, (1969) pp. 521-532.
>
> Herb
>
>

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