As Mozeson puts it, The third son of Noah, Ham, is behind the generic term for African languages, and white gentiles in the linguistic community have no trouble with the evidence of a related Hamito-Semitic language family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The line between cranks and scholars] Reference

Siamese, Annamite, Burmese, and Thibetan); the Hamito-Semitic family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference