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Not just "European", Western European. A whole lot of people read and write with the Cyrillic alphabet.

• xiaohanyu 2y ago
  roger that, thanks!
• Tainnor 2y ago
  And then there's Greek.
  • vkazanov 2y ago
    And Greek alphabet is sort of a base for both major groups of European alphabets, Latin and Cyrillic. Can we just say greek-based alphabets?
    • messe 2y ago
      Let's just go further back, and say Egyptian hieroglyph derived.
      • vkazanov 2y ago
        Surprisingly, I wanted to correct you but the phoenician alphabet is thought to be derived from Egyptian as well. So egyptian it is.
  • bafe 2y ago
    And Armenian, which is also Indo-European and uses its own alphabet