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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Nzakmbay of Chad

The Nzakmbay of Chad, numbering approximately 46,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a community along the Chad-Cameroon border closely related to the neighboring Kuo and Karang peoples, speaking an Eastern Mbum language within the wider Mbum cluster. They mostly adhere to Animism and Nzakambay is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Nzakmbay

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Chad
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Nzakambay (nzy)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 46,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG011438
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

55%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Nzakambay
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

85%
%
Nzakambay Speakers

Media Resources in Nzakambay:

Films:

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Bible Resources in Nzakambay:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Nzakmbay are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Nzakmbay:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Nzakmbay of Chad

That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us.
readActs 17:27

Pray that those who don't yet know Christ will search diligently for God and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

...I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
readPsalm 13:5

Ask God to bring many to trust in His unfailing love and cause their hearts to rejoice in His salvation.

I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me. I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.
readPsalm 3:5-6

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and experience isolation or other persecution, God will sustain them and give them confidence and rest in Him.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
readActs 1:8

Pray that God will raise up believers who are willing to cross cultures and boldly share the good news of Jesus with the lost in this people group and from every nation.

Nzakmbay Across Countries (ROP3 - 107573) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
NzakmbayPG011438NzakmbayChad46,000No Longer UnreachedNzakambayAnimism
NzakmbayPG012757NzakmbayCameroon28,500Engaged yet UnreachedNzakambayAnimism

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