People group profile · PG024266
The Dungans of Kazakhstan
The Dungans of Kazakhstan, numbering about 50,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnoreligious people group indigenous to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
They are an indigenous people in the Chinese-Hui people cluster of the East Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam, and they primarily speak Dungan.
Fast facts
- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Population
- 50,000
- Affinity group
- Central Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- Chinese-Hui
- Primary language
- Dungan (dng)
- Primary religion
- Sunni Islam
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- Central Asia, Asia
- Location
- Jambyl region: Korday and Jambyl districts
Where they live
Gospel status
The Dungans 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 No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Dungans
- 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
Sunni Islam · Islam
100% adherents
Primary language
Dungan · Sino-Tibetan family
70% speak Dungan
Gospel resources in Dungan
- Bible available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Dungan)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Dungans
- 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.
Dungan in other countries
The same people (ROP3 103902) is reported in 2 other countries.
| People group | Country | Population | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dungans | Kyrgyzstan | 69,500 | Engaged yet Unreached |
| Dungans | Uzbekistan | 1,900 | Unengaged and Unreached |
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