The Nhandeva Guarani of Paraguay

The Nhandeva Guarani of Paraguay, numbering approximately 1,900 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a Guarani people descended from groups that expanded southward from Brazil's Parana and Guaira regions around 1000 AD, settling southern Paraguay by the seventeenth century and blending Jesuit-era Christian teachings into traditional shamanism They are an Indigenous people, with Tapiete as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion. They primarily speak Tapieté.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Guarani, Nhandeva

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Paraguay
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Tapieté (tpj)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 1,900
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017280
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tapieté
Language Family: Tupian

77%
%
Ñandeva Speakers

Media Resources in Tapieté:

Films:
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1 film

Bible Resources in Tapieté:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

Or check out the Tapieté bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Nhandeva Guarani 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 Nhandeva Guarani:
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 Nhandeva Guarani of Paraguay

For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
readPsalm 97:9

Pray that those who don't yet know Him will recognize the Lord as the Most High and turn from spiritual darkness to worship Him above all else.

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
readPsalm 104:8

Pray that they will see the hand of God in the beauty and order of the natural world, and that they will worship Him as the Creator and Sustainer of all things.

Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack!
readPsalm 34:9

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be grounded in the Word, always trusting in the Lord's provision for their needs.

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
readJohn 1:9-10

Pray for those God might send to share the gospel here. Ask that they will grow closer to Jesus and be compelled to share His good news with people who don't know it.

Tapiete Across Countries (ROP3 - 109843) reported in the following countries:

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