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And then there's Greek.



And Armenian, which is also Indo-European and uses its own alphabet


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?


Let's just go further back, and say Egyptian hieroglyph derived.


Surprisingly, I wanted to correct you but the phoenician alphabet is thought to be derived from Egyptian as well.

So egyptian it is.




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