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Transliteration of the Siamese to Roman Alphabet
King Chulachomklao the Great of Siam Edition, 2436 (1893)


...Another point is the excellent scheme of transliteration which, with a paged table of contents ( kittanapatta), precedes the text of each volume. With the aid of this very useful key to the Siamese character, the Pāḷi text can be read without difficulty by European scholars, who will be grateful for the consideration thus shown to their needs by Siam...

From the King of Siam's Edition of the Pali Tipitaka
By Robert Chalmers
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, London: 1898, pp. 1-10



 
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