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The name is also written as '''Yoktan''' ({{Hebrew Name|יָקְטָן|Yoktan|Yoqṭān}}, {{lang-ar|يقطان|translit=Yaqṭān}}). He has also been identified with Qahtān, the ancestral figure of [[Qahtanite|Qahtanites]], in traditional Arab genealogy.
[[File:The_World_as_Peopled_by_the_Descendants_of_Noah_Shewing_the_Countries_Possessed_by_Shem,_Ham_&_Japhet_and_their_posterity_after_the_confusion_of_tongues..jpg|right|thumb|250px|[[Robert Wilkinson (cartographer)|Robert Wilkinson]]'s 1823 map of the descendants of Noah's sons, showing Joktan and his sons as having populated eastern Asia: [[Havilah]] is [[India]], [[Sheba]] is [[Deccan]], [[Jobab]] is [[Mongolia]], [[Obal]] is [[China]], [[Abimael]] is [[Indochina]], [[Diklah]] is [[Japan]], and [[Ophir]] is [[Indonesia]].]]
Obsolete theories (based on a literal reading of {{bibleref|Genesis|10:30}}, which states that Joktan's descendants migrated eastward) suggested that Joktan is the progenitor of the [[Mongoloid race]], including [[east Asians]] and the [[indigenous peoples of the Americas]], with the [[Yucatan peninsula]] supposedly being named after Joktan.<ref>https://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=turn&entity=History.McIntosh.p0040&id=History.McIntosh&isize=text</ref>
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