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The Yami of Taiwan

The Yami of Taiwan, numbering approximately 4,700 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a maritime Austronesian people who call themselves Tao, or man, settling Orchid Island around 4,000 years ago and maintaining trade and intermarriage with the Ivatan of the Philippines, later protesting an undisclosed 1982 nuclear waste facility. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Yami is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash: Yami

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: East Asian Peoples
Country: Taiwan
People Cluster: Taiwan Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Yami (tao)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 4,700
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG007546
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

42%
%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Yami
Language Family: Austronesian

72%
%
Yami Speakers

Media Resources in Yami:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Yami:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
The Bible Society in Taiwan, 1994✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Yami bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Yami 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 Yami:
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 Yami of Taiwan

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
readActs 4:12

Pray that those walking in darkness among them will come to know the name by which they must be saved, and call upon Him in faith.

Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!
readPsalm 96:7

Pray that entire households will come to faith in Jesus and that God will bless their families with faith in Him for generations to come.

Sanctify them in the truth, your word is truth.
readJohn 17:17

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will experience freedom from sin as God sanctifies them in the truth of His Word.

There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.
readMark 7:15

Pray for Christians to take any opportunity to share the hope of Jesus with lost people here, praying they will be wise like Jesus as they share the truth about what can defile people and what can make them clean.

Yami Across Countries (ROP3 - 110960) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▲Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
YamiPG007546YamiTaiwan4,700No Longer UnreachedYamiProtestantism

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