Chewbacca (Chewie to his friends) is the Wookiee in the original Star Wars trilogy. We know his name because people other than he say his name. Whenever he speaks, it's in growls and other noises, he can't verbalize Basic like the humans and C-3P0 can. But, he also can't enunciate the name 'Chewbacca'. Other Wookiees have the same issue, they have names that they obviously couldn't pronounce.
How does Chewbacca have that name, when he himself cannot pronounce it?
Answer
The canon comic Chewbacca shows that he does not pronounce his name as "Chewbacca."
Zarro: Do you have a name?
Chewbacca: YRRAANNH!
Zarro: I don't... know how to say that.
This is Wookieepedia's explanation for the apparent descrepancy. It makes sense to me.
The unique shape of the Wookiee throat made Shyriiwook a very difficult, even impossible language to speak for most non-Wookiees; presumably the word Shyriiwook itself, as well as other Wookiee words or names, were transliterations of the original Wookiee sounds into a form more easily pronounced by others.
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