People group profile · PG016929
The Daw of Brazil
The Daw of Brazil, numbering about 125 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a small Rio Negro people of the Amazon's Naduhup language family, whose 1980s gender imbalance pushed them toward near-extinction, with most Daw today also speaking Nheengatu and Portuguese alongside their own critically endangered tongue.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Dâw.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 125
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Dâw (kwa)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 30% or Greater but Less than 40%
- GSEC ?
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Significantly Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Amazonas: across the river from São Gabriel de Cochoeira, below confluence of Vaupés and Negro rivers
Where they live
Gospel status
The Daw are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Daw
- 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
Animism · Ethnoreligion
55% adherents
Primary language
Dâw · Naduhup family
100% speak Dâw
Gospel resources in Dâw
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Daw
- 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.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
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