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Tainnor
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And then there's Greek.
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bafe
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And Armenian, which is also Indo-European and uses its own alphabet
vkazanov
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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
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Let's just go further back, and say Egyptian hieroglyph derived.
vkazanov
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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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