Talk:Shanyu

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₌₌About the "Chun-Wei"== This assertion that "Chun-Wei is a legenday king" is from “史記匈奴傳” which said “The ancestor of Xiongnu is a descendant of some king of the Xia, who named Chun-Wei（淳維）.” see here. I don't know whether it's true or not and I cannot prove it either, but it really comes from somewhere and I guess one may still claim Chunwei (sunni?) as a “legendary king”.

[edit] shanyu or chanyu

someone needs to clean this page up. the reconstructed pronunciations seem to be of old chinese, of some relation presumably to xiongnu, but there's bound to be some difference. anyway, the attributions need to be made and the nature of the reconstruction indicated. my dictionary 國語辭典 says chanyu, not shanyu. and on the net a source that seems authoritative to me (chinaknowledge.de) says chanyu not shanyu. the initial of 單 is clearly not sh in old chinese. it may be a rare literary reading. and the chinese version of this page says chanyu, not shanyu!

Google book search shows 58 results for Shanyu, 15 result for Chanyu in the context of Xiongnu.--Skyfiler 08:21, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article appears to be an original research/translation

It should be redirected to Shan-yü. The list of Hsiung-nu rulers should be in a separate list or in the proper history article. There appear so be quite a few of these articles self-translated from Chinese not including verifiable sources.--Nostradamus1 (talk) 04:30, 14 January 2008 (UTC)