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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Zanniat Chin of Myanmar

The Zanniat Chin of Myanmar, numbering approximately 20,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a Chin subgroup of 39 villages in Falam Township, Chin State, tracing its name to Zanniat, one of three brothers who fled conflict at Kalay to found the Chin Hills settlements, later granted control of the regional salt trade by Shan rulers They are an Indigenous people, with Chin as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Kuki-Chin (Zo) people cluster of the Southeast Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Protestantism. They primarily speak Falam Chin.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Zanniat Chin

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Southeast Asian Peoples
Country: Myanmar
People Cluster: Kuki-Chin (Zo)
Primary Language(s): Falam Chin (cfm)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 20,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG009549
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Falam Chin
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

100%
%
Chin, Falam Speakers

Media Resources in Falam Chin:

Films:
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1 film

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Bible Resources in Falam Chin:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2005 Bible Society of Myanmar✓✓
2018 Bibles International✓

2 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Falam Chin bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Zanniat Chin 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 Zanniat Chin:
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 Zanniat Chin of Myanmar

All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.
readRomans 3:12

Pray that those who are enslaved to sin will admit their need for a Savior, acknowledging that no one is righteous.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
readRomans 5:10

Pray that God will remove obstacles to the gospel so that many will see the hope He offers through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, and be transformed from being enemies to being His friends.

The LORD bless you and keep you.
readNumbers 6:24

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be blessed with God's grace, trusting that He will never abandon them.

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.

Chin, Zanniat Across Countries (ROP3 - 111146) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Zanniat ChinPG009549Zanniat ChinMyanmar20,000No Longer UnreachedFalam ChinProtestantism

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