Kings of Thailand - Monument Of King Ramkhamhaeng The Great (The Great Father of the Siamese Language)
King Ramkhamhaeng the great ( The Great Father of Siamese Language)
Who invented the Thai alphabet system? The answer is King Ramkhamhaeng the great (พ่อขุนรามคำแหงมหาราช) of Sukhothai . This monument was built to honour and commemorate King Ramkhamhaeng, the great king of the Sukhothai period, who created the Thai alphabet (Lai Sue Thai) from earlier Khmer, Mon and Burmese scripts, on the evidence of an inscription (the Ramkhamhaeng stele, now in the National Museum in Bangkok) dated to 1283 or 1292 which bears the earliest known Thai writing. The Thai alphabet uses forty-four consonant and fifteen basic vowel characters. He was the third king of the Phra Ruang dynasty, ruling from 1277 to 1317, during the Golden Era of Sukhothai - a period of peace, harmony, stability, and prosperity.
Thai alphabet created by King Ramkhamhaeng the great of Sukhothai
The monument of King Ramkhamhaeng is located in Sukhothai Historical Park in northern Thailand covers the ruins of Sukhothai, which was the capital of the Sukhothai kingdom in the 13th and 14th centuries. The statue is in a sitting position. The right hand is holding a scripture and the face was sculptured as a Buddha image in Sukhothai style. On the left of the throne is a dagger. The statue is twice the size of a man. It was molded from bronze mixed with copper weighing about 3 tons .
He is still respected as the king who introduced the style of benevolent monarchy that remains today.
Monument of King Ramkhamhaeng the great (Sukhothai Historical Park)
