The Serbs of Germany, numbering approximately 238,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a South Slavic people native to the central Balkans, whose culture has been shaped by Orthodox Christianity, village and kinship traditions, centuries of life under competing empires, and a strong sense of historical and cultural continuity They are an Diaspora people, with Serb as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Slav, Southern people cluster of the Eurasian Peoples. They mostly adhere to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Serbian is their primary language.