People group profile · PG039057
The Southeastern Chinantec of Mexico
The Southeastern Chinantec of Mexico, numbering about 40,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Chinantec people whose fifteenth-century founders from Chiltepec Viejo conquered Oaxaca's Choapam district and displaced resident Zapotec and Mixe communities, settling San Juan Lalana in Mexico's Papaloapan River basin.
They are an indigenous people in the Zapotec people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Catholicism, and they primarily speak Lalana Chinantec.
Fast facts
- Country
- Mexico
- Population
- 40,000
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Zapotec
- Primary language
- Lalana Chinantec (cnl)
- Primary religion
- Folk Catholicism
- 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
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- Central America, Americas
- Location
- Oaxaca and Veracruz states: border area, Lalana municipality, 25 towns; Jocotepec and Petlapa municipalities
Where they live
Gospel status
The Southeastern Chinantec 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 Southeastern Chinantec
- 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
Folk Catholicism · Christianity
73% adherents
Primary language
Lalana Chinantec · Otomanguean family
86% speak Lalana Chinantec
Gospel resources in Lalana Chinantec
- Bible available, published 2015
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 2012 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Southeastern Chinantec
- 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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