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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Southern Baloch of United Arab Emirates

The Southern Baloch of United Arab Emirates, numbering approximately 484,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic subgroup of Baloch, a nomadic, pastoral, Western Iranic ethnic group native to the Balochistan region of South and Western Asia. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Southern Balochi is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Persian-Median Peoples
Country: United Arab Emirates
People Cluster: Baloch
Primary Language(s): Southern Balochi (bcc)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 484,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG012255
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Pray for the Southern Baloch of United Arab Emirates

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

99%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Southern Balochi
Language Family: Indo-European

70%
%
Balochi, Southern Speakers

Media Resources in Southern Balochi:

Films:
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1 film

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Bible Resources in Southern Balochi:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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2 entries

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Or check out the Southern Balochi bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Southern Baloch 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 Baloch:
Continue prayer and fasting for this group
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 Baloch of United Arab Emirates

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
readRomans 10:14

Pray that those who haven't heard will hear the Word of Christ and believe in Him, calling upon the name of the Lord to be saved.

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
readRomans 2:4

Pray that, in God's kindness and according to His nature, He will lead many to repentance.

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
readTitus 3:4-5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and might struggle with temptation to trust in their own works, they will remember that it is only because of God's mercy that they have been saved.

Then he said to his disciples, “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."
readMatthew 9:37-38

Pray that the Lord of the harvest will raise up believers to send out into His harvest field, which is ripe and ready.

Baloch Southern Across Countries (ROP3 - 109469) reported in the following countries:

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7 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▼PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Southern BalochPG047185Southern BalochUnited States325Unengaged and UnreachedSouthern BalochiSunni Islam
Southern BalochPG012255Southern BalochUnited Arab Emirates484,000Engaged yet UnreachedSouthern BalochiSunni Islam
Southern BalochPG011913Southern BalochSaudi Arabia13,500Unengaged and UnreachedSouthern BalochiSunni Islam
Southern BalochPG011899Southern BalochQatar56,500Unengaged and UnreachedSouthern BalochiSunni Islam
Southern BalochPG006401Southern BalochPakistan4,590,000Engaged yet UnreachedSouthern BalochiSunni Islam
Southern BalochPG011893Southern BalochOman675,000Engaged yet UnreachedSouthern BalochiSunni Islam
Southern BalochPG050104Southern BalochBahrain51,500Engaged yet UnreachedSouthern BalochiSunni Islam

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