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WHERE'S KHAN'S PICTURE? THERE'S A PICTURE OF HIS WIFE, HIS GRANDSON(S), BUT NOT HIM. KHAN'S PICTURE SHOULD BE THE LAST TO BE DELETED. -srry for the caps, just wanted attention.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by  (talk • contribs)  

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I think there are various explanations on how chinggis died in the different sources. Some say he fell from a horse, others allege a connection to a XiXia princess, one(?) goes into detail and sais that this princess severed the small Genghis. I think incorporating this into the article would be better than leaving it at the current ""unknown reasons"". I'll try to find the exact citations until tomorrow. Heissig's Ein Volk sucht seine Geschichte should be OK, I assume?   

 Spelling of name 

The article says:

""Genghis"" as popularly spelled and pronounced in Western media and text is supposedly derived from the original Persian reports of an invading army, led by a man in 1219 against the Khwarezmid Empire. The Persian people pronounced the man's name ""Genghis"", as there was no ""ch"" sound in the Persian tongue. Henceforth, the Persian version of the name of the leader of the Mongol Empire became known and widespread in the Western hemisphere as ""Genghis"".[citation needed]

This is absolute nonsense.  There is a ""ch"" sound in Persian (e.g. chahar, four).  The spelling ""Genghis"" is more likely to have come from Marco Polo attempting to render the sound of Chinese.  It might be worth pointing out that, in that case, the initial G should be pronounced j or zh, and not like ""get"" as so many people do.   

Do we have a source either way? If not, then this kind of speculation is Original Research, and needs to be removed (that's why there is a [citation needed] there in the first place).   

I've found a review that attributes the Genghis/Persian theory to Weatherford, and also refutes it based on historical documents. Therefore I've fixed the text in the article to explain that disagreement and pointing to the relevant source.   

Genghis is not Western but the English, French and Spanish spelling, note it's written and pronounced with a ""ch"" [ʧ] in Russian (Ч),  Mongolian (Ч), Tartar (Ç) and also German (Dsch-). The English spelling should follow the Russian, Mongolian and Tartar for this word, IMO.   

German pronounciation is actually more like Jingis, with J as in Jungle.   

The English name is and remains Genghis. It is not up to Wikipedia to decide whether it ""should"" be or follow anything different.   

Above statement is wrong. Genghis is almost never used in newly published (scholarly) books and articles in English these days. Most common spelling is Chingiz. Chingis also used. Genghis is now reserved for childrens' books and journalists, Wikipedia should change to reflect this.

I have never seen anyone use Chingiz. Chinggis, Činggis etc. yes, but not Chingiz.   

Looked at some sources and I was wrong above - Chinggis is most common, followed by Chingis and Chingiz in roughly equal second place. No matter how commonly Genghis is used in English, there's no escaping that it's wrong. 212.135.195.50  

Just repeating such a statement doesn't make it true. What are you verifiable published sources to support such a claim?   

Here is one verifiable published source: CIA World Factbook: Mongolia.  

So the CIA makes a statement about which spelling is most comm