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• The lessons on the Ashuri script are an essential starting point for learning Aramaic, and these lessons contained a lot of background information which is not repeated in the later lessons on the Estrangela and Serta alphabets. Make sure, therefore, that you watch the lessons on the Ashuri script and understand them thoroughly.
• The Ashuri script came first in point of time, and was the basis for the later scripts. Next came the Estrangela script which, as we have seen, was developed out of the Ashuri script. It arose in the first few centuries B.C., and is still in use to this day. Once you have learned the Ashuri script, the Estrangela script is the next one you should learn. Estrangela is commonly used for the Peshitta Old Testament and the Peshitta New Testament.