People group profile · PG011191
The Nung of Vietnam
The Nung of Vietnam, numbering about 1,235,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Tai-speaking people of northern Vietnam descended largely from migrants from Guangxi in southern China, closely related to the Tày and Zhuang and concentrated in the mountainous border regions of the northeast.
They are an indigenous people in the Zhuang people cluster of the Southeast Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Nung (Viet Nam).
Fast facts
- Country
- Vietnam
- Population
- 1,235,000
- Affinity group
- Asian Pacific Rim Peoples
- People cluster
- Zhuang
- Primary language
- Nung (Viet Nam) (nut)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- South-Eastern Asia, Asia
Where they live
Gospel status
The Nung are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Nung
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
75% adherents
Primary language
Nung (Viet Nam) · Tai-Kadai family
100% speak Nung (Viet Nam)
Gospel resources in Nung (Viet Nam)
- Bible available, published 2019
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Nung)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Nung
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
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