Malagasy of Mayotte (PGID: PG015368)

The Malagasy of Mayotte

The Malagasy of Mayotte, numbering approximately 2,900 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Austronesian-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the island country of Madagascar. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Plateau Malagasy is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Malay Peoples
Country: Mayotte
People Cluster: Malagasy
Primary Language(s): Plateau Malagasy (plt)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 2,900
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG015368
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Plateau Malagasy
Language Family: Austronesian

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Malagasy, Merina Speakers

Media Resources in Plateau Malagasy:

Films:

Title	Link
JESUS	View Film
Magdalena	View Film

2 films

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Bible Resources in Plateau Malagasy:

Bible Name (Translation)	Video	Audio	Text
Dikanteny Iombonana Eto Madagasikara	✓
Interconfessional Version		✓	✓
Protestant version 1985 based on Malagasy Protestant Bible 1965		✓	✓
Revised Protestant Version		✓
Roman Catholic Version 2010 based on text Malagasy Catholic Bible 2003		✓	✓

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Malagasy 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 Malagasy:

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 Malagasy of Mayotte

You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.
Psalm 65:9

Give thanks for God's provision in nature, and pray that those who don't know Him will recognize His hand, desire to know their Creator, and hear the truth that Jesus is the solution to the world's greatest need.

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
1 Timothy 2:1-2

Pray that leaders and those in authority will not thwart the spread of the gospel but put their faith in Christ, have hearts that are soft toward their people, and be freed from the temptations that power can bring.

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
James 4:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will turn from worldly passions and live in unity with one another.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12

Ask God to give those He sends to cross cultures the discernment they need to recognize the spiritual battle they are fighting. Pray God will protect their faith as they abide in Him.

Malagasy Across Countries (ROP3 - 106120) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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Engaged yet Unreached UUPG No Longer Unreached

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7 people groups

People Group ID	Name	Country ▼	Population	Strategic Progress Index	Language	Religion
PG047271	Malagasy	United States	300	No Longer Unreached	Plateau Malagasy	Protestantism
PG015472	Malagasy	Reunion	12,500	Engaged yet Unreached	Plateau Malagasy	Ethnoreligion
PG015368	Malagasy	Mayotte	2,900	Engaged yet Unreached	Plateau Malagasy	Ethnoreligion
PG015358	Malagasy	Mauritius	5,100	Engaged yet Unreached	Plateau Malagasy	Animism
PG000179	Malagasy	France	66,500	No Longer Unreached	Plateau Malagasy	Protestantism
PG015275	Malagasy Maore	Comoros	1,300	Engaged yet Unreached	Plateau Malagasy	Animism
PG047470	Malagasy	Canada	2,400	Unengaged and Unreached	Plateau Malagasy	Sunni Islam

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