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A bit less recent than that. More like the 15th century for Hangul.

Swahili uses either modified Latin or modified Arabic for writing. Are you perhaps thinking of one of the invented scripts for indigenous American languages, e.g., Cree syllabics or Inuktitut?




I was thinking of the Ge’ez script but that’s for Amharic not Swahili.


Which is also rather old, although it’s not entirely clear when it switched from R-L to L-R reading the Wikipedia article.




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