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Yes, but also no. It does use the Linux kernel, but userspace is very different. The application ecosystem is very different. There can be huge differences between distros let alone a linux distro and android...
Alpine Linux has a very different user space from GNU/Linux. It's still Linux.
And also has nothing to do with Android.