Images 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 death 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first place I ve found a review that attributes the Genghis Persian theory to Weatherford and also refutes it based on historical documents Therefore I ve fixed the text in the article to explain that disagreement and pointing to the relevant source Genghis is not Western but the English French and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 in Russian Mongolian Tartar 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 inggis 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