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 **Comment What you're saying is incredibly parochial, Kwami, and your claim it doesn't have an English pronunciation flies in the face of the reality that it's now the official/accepted name used by the BC and federal governments and is regularly used by local media.  It's easy for me to pronounce, and the pronunciation is given on the article, in case you hadn't noticed.  ""Kitunaha"" is a rough anglicization and is also seen in the language-name ""Kitunahan"" which you can't pretend you don't know.  ""People all over the world"" are not relevant in discussions about CANENGL names (which this is) and if that were the case, those googlehits wouldn't come out the way they do; unless you exclude all results from the people themselves and the BC/federal governments and all other British Columbian sources"".  ""Kutenai"" also doesn't have an obvious pronunciation, by the way ""Cut-eh-nay"", perhaps?  ""Kootenay"" in BC is pronounced ""KOO-te-nee"" not -nay, by the way.  Positing one English adaptation, which was never used on the Canadian side of the border, with an official and indigenously-authentic one now in common use, whereas the other is not'', is kinda weird, frankly.  "