People group profile · PG024792
The Mayangna of Honduras
The Mayangna of Honduras, numbering about 2,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Mosquito Coast people belonging to a larger Misumalpan-speaking nation pushed inland after the neighboring Miskito gained firearms, whose endonym means we in their own language.
They are an indigenous people in the Central American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Mayangna.
Fast facts
- Country
- Honduras
- Population
- 2,500
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Central American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Mayangna (yan)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10%
- GSEC
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Marginally Reached People Group
- Region
- Central America, Americas
Where they live
Gospel status
The Mayangna are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 5% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Mayangna
- 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
97% adherents
Primary language
Mayangna · Misumalpan family
30% speak Mayangna
Gospel resources in Mayangna
- Bible available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Mayangna)
Bibles
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Mayangna
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
- 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.
Mayangna in other countries
The same people (ROP3 107313) is reported in 1 other country.
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