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The Mongallese Arabs of South Sudan

The Mongallese Arabs of South Sudan, numbering approximately 55,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an indigenous community of Mongallese Arabs in South Sudan. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Sudanese Creole Arabic is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Arab Peoples
Country: South Sudan
People Cluster: Arab, Sudan
Primary Language(s): Sudanese Creole Arabic (pga)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 55,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG012110
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

99%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Sudanese Creole Arabic
Language Family: Afro-Asiatic

100%
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Arabic, Juba Speakers

Media Resources in Sudanese Creole Arabic:

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Bible Resources in Sudanese Creole Arabic:

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Mongallese Arabs:
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And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many."
readMark 14:23-24

Pray for those who may have heard the gospel but have not yet submitted their lives to Christ, that they will finally see the sacrifice which He made for them and surrender their lives to Him.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
read2 Timothy 4:3-4

Pray that the lost will be open to the truth of the gospel and turn from false teachings and myths to the sound doctrine of Christ in faith.

And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.
readActs 16:15

Pray that God will bring entire families and households to faith in Him and raise up servant-leaders from among them.

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
readJohn 12:24

Pray that God will raise up men and women who are willing to die to their own desires, bearing much fruit for the kingdom among individuals and in places where His gospel has not been proclaimed.

Arab, Mongallese Across Countries (ROP3 - 106754) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▲Religion
Mongallese ArabsPG012110Mongallese ArabsSouth Sudan55,000Unengaged and UnreachedSudanese Creole ArabicSunni Islam

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