The Dii of Cameroon

The Dii of Cameroon, numbering approximately 159,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Adamawa Plateau people so close to the neighboring Mbum that outsiders often cannot tell them apart, who came under 19th-century Fulani Muslim rule and intermarried extensively while retaining traditional spiritual beliefs into the 20th century. They mostly adhere to Animism and Dii is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: Cameroon
People Cluster: Adamawa-Ubangi
Primary Language(s): Dii (dur)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 159,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG012770
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Pray for the Dii of Cameroon

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

90%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Dii
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

100%
%
Dii Speakers

Media Resources in Dii:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Dii:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2001 Bible Society of Cameroon✓

1 entry

Or check out the Dii bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Dii 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 Dii:
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 Dii of Cameroon

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
readRomans 6:23

Pray that those who do know about God's free gift will hear and believe that the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord and that they will joyfully accept this gift.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
readJohn 3:14-15

Pray that the lost will look to Jesus lifted up on the cross and believe in Him, gaining eternal life with God.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
readPhilippians 2:5-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will imitate His humility in all they do.

And the King will answer them, "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."
readMatthew 25:40

Ask God to raise up and send believers who will serve "the least of these" with compassion and energy because they know that in serving those in need, they are serving Christ.

Dii Across Countries (ROP3 - 102609) reported in the following countries:

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