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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Southern Roglai of Vietnam

The Southern Roglai of Vietnam, numbering approximately 47,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Austronesian forest people of southern Vietnam's Panduranga region, culturally and linguistically related to the Cham, whose ancestors' Champa kingdom endured there until the mid-1600s. They mostly adhere to Animism and Southern Roglai is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Southeast Asian Peoples
Country: Vietnam
People Cluster: Cham
Primary Language(s): Southern Roglai (rgs)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 47,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG011225
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

90%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Southern Roglai
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Roglai, Southern Speakers

Media Resources in Southern Roglai:

Films:

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Bible Resources in Southern Roglai:

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Southern Roglai are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Southern Roglai:
Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Southern Roglai of Vietnam

These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self- made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
readColossians 2:23

Pray for those without Christ, that they will see the emptiness of human traditions and turn to the truth and grace found in Jesus.

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
read1 John 4:21

Pray that the good news of God's love will reach everyone in this people group, and that His love will compel them to love others as Christ has loved us.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
readJames 1:2-3

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will consider it pure joy when they face trials of many kinds, trusting in God's promise that the testing of their faith produces perseverance.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
read1 Corinthians 9:22

Ask God to raise up believers from around the world to go and share the hope of Jesus with the lost so that they might trust in Him and have the hope of eternal life.

Roglai, Southern Across Countries (ROP3 - 109512) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Southern RoglaiPG011225Southern RoglaiVietnam47,000Engaged yet UnreachedSouthern RoglaiAnimism

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