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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Malagasy of France

The Malagasy of France, numbering approximately 66,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an Austronesian-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the island country of Madagascar They are an Diaspora people, with Malagasy as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Malagasy people cluster of the Malay Peoples. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Plateau Malagasy is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: France
People Cluster: Malagasy
Primary Language(s): Plateau Malagasy (plt)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 66,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG000179
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Plateau Malagasy
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Malagasy, Merina Speakers

Media Resources in Plateau Malagasy:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

2 films

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Bible Resources in Plateau Malagasy:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Dikanteny Iombonana Eto Madagasikara✓
Interconfessional Version✓✓
Protestant version 1985 based on Malagasy Protestant Bible 1965✓✓
Revised Protestant Version✓
Roman Catholic Version 2010 based on text Malagasy Catholic Bible 2003✓✓

5 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Plateau Malagasy bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Malagasy 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 Malagasy:
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 Malagasy of France

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
readExodus 2:23-24

As the lost among them labor, groan, and cry out under false religions and sin, pray God will have mercy on them and hear their cries, that He will be their Rescuer from the kingdom of darkness and bring them into the kingdom of light.

...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.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
readPsalm 22:27

Pray that all families of the nations will worship the Lord in spirit and in truth.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

Malagasy Across Countries (ROP3 - 106120) reported in the following countries:

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7 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress Index ▼LanguageReligion
MalagasyPG047271MalagasyUnited States300No Longer UnreachedPlateau MalagasyProtestantism
MalagasyPG000179MalagasyFrance66,500No Longer UnreachedPlateau MalagasyProtestantism
MalagasyPG015472MalagasyReunion12,500Engaged yet UnreachedPlateau MalagasyEthnoreligion
MalagasyPG015368MalagasyMayotte2,900Engaged yet UnreachedPlateau MalagasyEthnoreligion
MalagasyPG015358MalagasyMauritius5,100Engaged yet UnreachedPlateau MalagasyAnimism
Malagasy MaorePG015275Malagasy MaoreComoros1,300Engaged yet UnreachedPlateau MalagasyAnimism
MalagasyPG047470MalagasyCanada2,400Unengaged and UnreachedPlateau MalagasySunni Islam

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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