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

And then there's Greek.

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.

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

roger that, thanks!