People group profile · PG024530
The Yagnobi of Tajikistan
The Yagnobi of Tajikistan, numbering about 20,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Tajikistan.
They are an indigenous people in the Tajik people cluster of the Persian-Median Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam, and they primarily speak Yagnobi.
Fast facts
- Country
- Tajikistan
- Population
- 20,000
- Affinity group
- Central Asian Peoples
- People cluster
- Tajik
- Primary language
- Yagnobi (yai)
- Primary religion
- Sunni Islam
- 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
- Central Asia, Asia
Where they live
Gospel status
The Yagnobi 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 Yagnobi
- 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
97% adherents
Primary language
Yagnobi · Indo-European family
65% speak Yagnobi
Gospel resources in Yagnobi
- Bible available, published 2023
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not 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 Yagnobi
- 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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