a. and sb. [f. L. allophȳl-us (see prec.) + -IAN.] A term introduced by Prichard to designate the languages of Asia and Europe, which are neither Aryan nor Semitic; sometimes extended to all the languages of the world outside these families, sometimes made equivalent to ‘Turanian.’ A. adj.
1844. J. Prichard, in Blackw. Mag., LVI. 328/1. Among the Allophylian nations, on the other hand, a rude and sensual superstition prevailed, which ascribed life and mysterious power to the inanimate objects.
1865. Athenæum, No. 1960, 688/1. This so called Turanian or Allophyllian family [of languages].
1866. Laing, Preh. Rem. Caithn., 4. Stonehenge … has been assigned … to the remote antiquity of some unknown Allophylian race.
B. sb.
1881. Q. Rev., Jan., 41. Ethnologically speaking, the Californian Indian is no allophylian.
