Why do most European languages use the same alphabet?

Many European languages (the Romance family) are direct descendants of Latin, so not surprising they’d keep the alphabet as well. After the Empire fell, the Roman Christians used Latin, so it eventually became the language of scholarship, pushing out local writing systems (e.g. Norse, Irish).

Do all Asian languages use the same characters?

In other languages, most significantly in modern Japanese and sometimes in Korean, characters are used to represent Chinese loanwords or to represent native words independent of the Chinese pronunciation (e.g., kun-yomi in Japanese)….

Are Asian languages related to European languages?

Languages spoken by billions of people across Europe and Asia are descended from an ancient tongue uttered in southern Europe at the end of the last ice age, according to research.

How many languages does Southeast Asia have?

South East Asia is home to well over 1,000 native languages. Indeed, more than 800 languages can be found in Indonesia alone. Many people living in South East Asia are bilingual if not trilingual.

Why is the Latin alphabet still used in Europe?

Most if not all the area of Europe which uses the Latin alphabet was once part of the Roman Empire, and used Latin as the language of trade even if it wasn’t the native language (much like English today). Many European languages (the Romance family) are direct descendants of Latin, so not surprising they’d keep the alphabet as well.

How is Asia similar geographically close to Europe?

Asia is 4.4 times bigger than Europe by land area; that not “similarly geographically close” at all. Furthermore, each of your Asian examples belong to a different language family. In contrast most European languages are Indo-European, and yet many uses the Cryllic script, not Latin.

Why is there so much alphabetic confusion in eastern Asia?

So the basis for alphabetic confusion in Eastern Asia is basically that it started as a conceptually similar use of a non-phonetic alphabet, which is very vulnerable to regional divergence, and different lands used different means to eventually cope with this and change it to a regionally acceptable phonetic alphabet.

Why don’t most European languages use Chinese characters anymore?

In contrast most European languages are Indo-European, and yet many uses the Cryllic script, not Latin. Having said that, Thai, Mandarin, and Japanese (and Korean and Vietnamese etc etc) all used Chinese characters once upon a time. Things changed because those are very different languages.