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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

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%
%
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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Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper!
readPsalm 30:10

Pray that people in the depths of despair and suffering and living outside of relationship with Christ will cry out to the Lord and find help, peace, and joy in Him.

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.’ In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
readJob 1:20-22

Pray that those who mourn will worship God in the midst of their suffering and loss, recognizing He is the source of all good things and that He is worthy of their praise and trust.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
read2 Corinthians 6:14

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and want to marry, they will be led to other believers and enter into godly marriages.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
read1 Corinthians 9:22

Ask God to raise up believers from around the world to go and share the hope of Jesus with the lost so that they might trust in Him and have the hope of eternal life.

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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