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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Nzakmbay of Chad

The Nzakmbay of Chad, numbering approximately 46,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a community along the Chad-Cameroon border closely related to the neighboring Kuo and Karang peoples, speaking an Eastern Mbum language within the wider Mbum cluster. They mostly adhere to Animism and Nzakambay is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Chad
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Nzakambay (nzy)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 46,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG011438
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

55%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Nzakambay
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

85%
%
Nzakambay Speakers

Media Resources in Nzakambay:

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Bible Resources in Nzakambay:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Nzakmbay 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 Nzakmbay:
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 Nzakmbay of Chad

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.

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
read1 Timothy 2:5-6

Pray for the truth about Jesus Christ to spread among the lost so that many will accept His ransom for their sin and experience freedom in a relationship with Him.

This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
readEphesians 5:32-33

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will grasp the profound mystery of Christ's love for the Church, reflecting this love in their marriages.

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
readLuke 10:1

Ask God to raise up, send out, and sustain Christians who can go together to share the good news of Jesus with those who need it.

Nzakmbay Across Countries (ROP3 - 107573) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▲NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
NzakmbayPG011438NzakmbayChad46,000No Longer UnreachedNzakambayAnimism
NzakmbayPG012757NzakmbayCameroon28,500Engaged yet UnreachedNzakambayAnimism

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