The Southern Roglai of Vietnam

The Southern Roglai of Vietnam, numbering approximately 47,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Austronesian forest people of southern Vietnam's Panduranga region, culturally and linguistically related to the Cham, whose ancestors' Champa kingdom endured there until the mid-1600s. They mostly adhere to Animism and Southern Roglai is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Southern Roglai

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Southeast Asian Peoples
Country: Vietnam
People Cluster: Cham
Primary Language(s): Southern Roglai (rgs)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 47,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG011225
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

90%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Southern Roglai
Language Family: Austronesian

100%
%
Roglai, Southern Speakers

Media Resources in Southern Roglai:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Southern Roglai:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

Or check out the Southern Roglai bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Southern Roglai are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Southern Roglai:
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Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Southern Roglai of Vietnam

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
readRomans 1:22

Ask God to pour out His mercy and bring those who are walking in their own wisdom to faith in Jesus.

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
readPsalm 57:10

Pray that God will work, even in the hearts of hard-to-reach people, and that they will rejoice in His steadfast love and faithfulness.

For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
read1 Corinthians 9:19

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have hearts that want to serve the lost around them so that many might come to faith in Jesus.

And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."
readLuke 10:2

Ask God to send out laborers into His harvest field, raising up believers from around the world to go and proclaim the kingdom of God with those who need to hear it.

Roglai, Southern Across Countries (ROP3 - 109512) reported in the following countries:

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