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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Mabaka Valley Kalinga of Philippines

The Mabaka Valley Kalinga of Philippines, numbering approximately 5,800 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Kalinga subgroup of southeastern Kalinga province in the Philippine Cordillera, part of a warrior and tattooing tradition governed through the bodong system of inter-village peace pacts. They mostly adhere to Animism and Mabaka Valley Kalinga is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash: Mabaka Valley Kalinga

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Philippines
People Cluster: Filipino Tribal
Primary Language(s): Mabaka Valley Kalinga (kkg)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 5,800
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG007720
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

94%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mabaka Valley Kalinga
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Kalinga, Mabaka Valley Speakers

Media Resources in Mabaka Valley Kalinga:

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Bible Resources in Mabaka Valley Kalinga:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Mabaka Valley Kalinga 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 Mabaka Valley Kalinga:
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 Mabaka Valley Kalinga of Philippines

"And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
readJohn 8:32

Pray for those who live enslaved to sin to hear and receive the truth of the gospel and be set free.

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
readPsalm 104:8

Pray that they will see the hand of God in the beauty and order of the natural world, and that they will worship Him as the Creator and Sustainer of all things.

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
readActs 2:46-47

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be devoted to the teaching of God's Word, to fellowship with one another, and to prayer.

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
readLuke 10:1

Ask God to raise up, send out, and sustain Christians who can go together to share the good news of Jesus with those who need it.

Kalinga, Mabaka Valley Across Countries (ROP3 - 105962) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Mabaka Valley KalingaPG007720Mabaka Valley KalingaPhilippines5,800No Longer UnreachedMabaka Valley KalingaAnimism

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