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Looks like we have some new ones to add, care of the IAU's NameExoWorlds project. Some of the relevant details and links can be found here:

https://www.space.com/iau-unveils-new-stars-planets-names-indigenous-languages.html

http://www.nameexoworlds.iau.org/final-results

If you're wondering about Canada's winning entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awasis

http://galaxymap.org/dr2/index.html?search=HD%20136418&tileset=SGD&distanceEstimator=bj

From the Nēhiyawēwin language...what we settler-born Canadians of a certain age-range were taught to call "Cree".

All of this remains subject to approval by whatever species we might end up finding calling those planets "home", of course!

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