People group profile · PG012810
The Yambetta of Cameroon
The Yambetta of Cameroon, numbering about 12,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Bantu farming people of the Mbam valley in Cameroon's Centre Region, descended from settlers displaced from the Nun-Mbam confluence area by 18th-century intertribal land pressure.
They are an indigenous people in the Bantu, Northwest people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Yambeta.
Fast facts
- Country
- Cameroon
- Population
- 12,500
- Affinity group
- Sub-Saharan African Peoples
- People cluster
- Bantu, Northwest
- Primary language
- Yambeta (yat)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5%
- GSEC ?
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Minimally Reached People Group
- Region
- Middle Africa, Africa
- Location
- Centre region: Mbam-and-Inoubou division, north Kon-Yambeta subdivision northwest of Bafia town
Where they live
Gospel status
The Yambetta are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 2% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Yambetta
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Primary language
Yambeta · Atlantic-Congo family
57% speak Yambeta
Gospel resources in Yambeta
- Bible available, published 2016
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 2016 CABTAL - Nɛsɔ́g nɛ́ Nɛwa · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Yambetta
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
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