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{{Short description|Invented alphabet to transcribe Pali}}

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| type        = [[Alphabet]]
| name        = Ariyaka
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| native_name = อักษรอริยกะ
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| caption     = ''Bhikkhu Patimokkha'' in [[Latin script|Latin]]-derived Ariyaka script invented by King Mongkut {{circa|1841}} to write Buddhist texts.
| languages   = [[Lao language|Lao]], [[Isan language|Isan]], and others
| time        = {{circa|1800s}}
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| direction   = left-to-right
| region      = [[Thailand]]
| language    = [[Pali]]
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{{Expand Thai|อักษรอริยกะ}}

The '''Ariyaka script''' ({{lang-th|อักษรอริยกะ}}) is an obsolete [[alphabet]], invented by King [[Mongkut]] as an alternative to transcribing [[Pali]], the liturgical language of [[Theravada|Theravada Buddhism]]. The script, inspired by the [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] and [[Mon–Burmese script|Burmese-Mon scripts]], did not come into popular use and eventually fell out of usage.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=The Mon Origin of King Rama IV’s Ariyaka Script |url=https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/soa/aktuelles/21-04-23-hgt-ariyaka-script/hgt-online-shinnakrit.pdf |website=University of Hamburg}}</ref>

== History ==

During religious reforms in mid-nineteenth century [[Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)|Rattanakosin Kingdom]], King Mongkut discouraged use of the [[Khom Thai script]],  in religious works for reason that its exclusivity gave wrong impression that [[Khom Thai script|Khom Thai Script]] was holy and magical, ordering the monks to switch to the Thai script in recording Buddhist canon. In the 1840s, Mongkut invented the Ariyaka script to promote printing of [[Tripiṭaka]], instead of traditionally inscribing on [[Palm-leaf manuscript|palm leaf manuscripts]].<ref name=":65">{{Cite book |last=Ghosh |first=Lipi |title=India-Thailand Cultural Interactions: Glimpses from the Past to Present |publisher=Springer |year=2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Crosby |first=Kate |last2=Kyaw |first2=Pyi Phyo |date=2022-10-19 |title=Practices of Protection in the Pali World |url=https://oxfordre.com/religion/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-764;jsessionid=8C9CBD729EE864E665C2EBE9FF56C034 |access-date=2023-03-01 |website=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.764}}</ref> The script was adapted from both the [[Greek alphabet|Greek]] and [[Mon–Burmese script|Burmese-Mon scripts]], and was intended to supplant other existing scripts for transcribing Pali, including Khom Thai and [[Tai Tham script|Tai Tham]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Citation |last=Ray |first=Himanshu Prabha |title=Archaeology of Buddhism in Asia |date=2019-01-25 |url=https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-214 |work=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.214 |isbn=978-0-19-027772-7 |access-date=2023-03-01}}</ref> 

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