The Bahraini Shia Arabs of Bahrain, numbering approximately 741,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as an indigenous Arab ethnolinguistic community of Bahrain who speak Baharna Arabic and maintain a distinct identity shaped by Shia Islam, Gulf maritime heritage, village traditions, and deep historical roots in Eastern Arabia They are an Indigenous people, with Arab, Bahraini as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Arab, Arabian people cluster of the Arab Peoples. They mostly adhere to Shia Islam and Baharna Arabic is their primary language.