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The Aukan of French Guiana

The Aukan of French Guiana, numbering approximately 24,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Ndyuka Maroon people descended from enslaved Africans who fled Suriname's plantations in the early eighteenth century, winning an 1760 treaty of semi-independence, with roughly a quarter now settled along French Guiana's Maroni River basin. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Eastern Maroon Creole is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: North American Peoples
Country: French Guiana
People Cluster: Afro-American
Primary Language(s): Eastern Maroon Creole (djk)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 24,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG016331
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Eastern Maroon Creole
Language Family: Indo-European

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Aukan Speakers

Media Resources in Eastern Maroon Creole:

Films:
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Bible Resources in Eastern Maroon Creole:

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1 entry

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Aukan 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 Aukan:
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 Aukan of French Guiana

For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
read1 Chronicles 16:26

Pray that those among them who are lost and seeking after worthless idols will have the opportunity to hear and respond to the good news, seeing that Jesus is better than any idol.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb’
readRevelation 7:9-10

Pray that many people will receive the gospel and will be part of the great multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, clothed in white robes and palm branches, proclaiming salvation belongs to our God.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
readPhilippians 3:20-21

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember their citizenship is in heaven.

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
readPsalm 96:4

Pray that God will raise up believers to declare His glory among the lost, so that they may know that He is great and greatly to be praised, that He is exalted above all gods.

Aukan, Ndjuka Across Countries (ROP3 - 107179) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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3 people groups

Photo People Group ID Name Country Population Strategic Progress Index ▲ Language Religion
Aukan PG016331 Aukan French Guiana 24,000 No Longer Unreached Eastern Maroon Creole Ethnoreligion
Aukan PG016357 Aukan Guyana 850 No Longer Unreached Eastern Maroon Creole Ethnoreligion
Aukan PG016425 Aukan Suriname 25,500 No Longer Unreached Eastern Maroon Creole Ethnoreligion

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