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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Mundang of Cameroon

The Mundang of Cameroon, numbering approximately 192,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Adamawa-speaking people whose ancestors migrated from Cameroon into Chad's Mayo-Kebbi region, where they built a unified 18th-century kingdom centered on the town of Lere, with kin communities farming across the Cameroon-Chad-Nigeria borderlands. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Mundang is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cameroon
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Mundang (mua)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 192,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG012711
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

50%
%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mundang
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Mundang Speakers

Media Resources in Mundang:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Mundang:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Alliance Biblique du Tchad✓✓

1 entry

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Or check out the Mundang bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Mundang 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 Mundang:
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 Mundang of Cameroon

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
readRomans 10:14

Pray that those who haven't heard will hear the Word of Christ and believe in Him, calling upon the name of the Lord to be saved.

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.
readPsalm 127:3

Pray that God will bless this generation of children, that they will come to know Jesus early in life and follow Him always.

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
readRomans 12:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will offer their bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God, knowing that this is their spiritual worship.

But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
read2 Corinthians 3:16

Give thanks to God for believers around the world who are willing to cross cultures to share the gospel with those who are perishing. Pray that He will work through their witness to draw many to turn to Him.

Mundang Across Countries (ROP3 - 106897) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
MundangPG012711MundangCameroon192,000No Longer UnreachedMundangEthnoreligion
MundangPG011430MundangChad524,000No Longer UnreachedMundangEthnoreligion

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