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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Lower Tanudan Kalinga of Philippines

The Lower Tanudan Kalinga of Philippines, numbering approximately 18,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a Cordillera mountain people of the Philippines' Tanudan area, formed from migrants converging from the Cagayan Valley and Abra province, maintaining the local Podon variant of the Kalinga bodong peace-pact tradition They are an Indigenous people, with Kalinga as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Filipino Tribal people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism. They primarily speak Tanudan Kalinga.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash: Lower Tanudan Kalinga

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Philippines
People Cluster: Filipino Tribal
Primary Language(s): Tanudan Kalinga (kml)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 18,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG007717
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

94%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tanudan Kalinga
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Kalinga, Tanudan Speakers

Media Resources in Tanudan Kalinga:

Films:

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Bible Resources in Tanudan Kalinga:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Lower Tanudan 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 Lower Tanudan 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 Lower Tanudan Kalinga of Philippines

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
readPsalm 51:1

Give thanks to God that He is able to forgive all the sins people might commit, and pray that many who don't yet know this will hear the good news and turn to Him for mercy.

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
readRomans 5:11

Pray for the gospel to advance and for more people to be brought into God's family through the reconciliation Jesus offers them.

This God - his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
readPsalm 18:30

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have access to His Word and the ability to understand it, so that they can grow in their faith and find refuge in Him.

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.

Kalinga, Lower Tanudan Across Countries (ROP3 - 105884) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▼Religion
Lower Tanudan KalingaPG007717Lower Tanudan KalingaPhilippines18,500No Longer UnreachedTanudan KalingaAnimism

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