Tajiks of Tajikistan (PGID: PG024529)

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The Tajiks of Tajikistan

The Tajiks of Tajikistan, numbering approximately 7,410,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are descendants of ancient Eastern Iranian peoples of Central Asia, including Sogdians, Bactrians, and Sakas, who shifted from their ancestral tongues to Persian after the 7th-century Islamic conquest, with the Samanid Empire regarded as an ancestral polity. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Tajik is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Persian-Median Peoples
Country: Tajikistan
People Cluster: Tajik
Primary Language(s): Tajik (tgk)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 7,410,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG024529
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

100%

Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tajik
Language Family: Indo-European

80%

Tajik Speakers

Media Resources in Tajik:

Films:

Title	Link
JESUS	View Film
JESUS	View Film
Magdalena	View Film
Magdalena	View Film

4 films

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Bible Resources in Tajik:

Bible Name (Translation)	Video	Audio	Text
1992, 1999 Institute for Bible Translation - Stockholm	✓	✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Tajik bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Tajiks 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 Tajiks:

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 Tajiks of Tajikistan

Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:8

Pray that God will open the ears of those who are lost to understand and believe that only shed blood takes away sin and that, like Abraham, they will believe that God Himself provides the lamb for the burnt offering, who is Jesus the final, perfect sacrifice.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
Romans 5:10

Pray that God will remove obstacles to the gospel so that many will see the hope He offers through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, and be transformed from being enemies to being His friends.

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Acts 2:42

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will devote themselves to God's Word, to fellowship with each other, and to prayer.

And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
Matthew 7:28-29

Pray that God will remind believers that they have His authority as they share His truth with the lost, and pray He will draw crowds of people to this message and plant it deeply in their hearts.

Tajik Across Countries (ROP3 - 109733) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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Engaged yet Unreached UUPG No Longer Unreached

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11 people groups

People Group ID	Name	Country	Population ▼	Strategic Progress Index	Language	Religion
PG024018	Tajiks	Afghanistan	11,470,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Dari	Sunni Islam
PG024529	Tajiks	Tajikistan	7,410,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Tajik	Sunni Islam
PG024392	Tajiks	Pakistan	1,885,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Dari	Sunni Islam
PG024315	Tajiks	Uzbekistan	1,730,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Tajik	Sunni Islam
PG050099	Tajiks	Russian Federation	1,240,000	Engaged yet Unreached	Tajik	Sunni Islam
PG024369	Tajiks	Kyrgyzstan	65,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Tajik	Sunni Islam
PG024296	Tajiks	Kazakhstan	34,500	Unengaged and Unreached	Tajik	Sunni Islam
PG050462	Tajiks	Germany	25,000	Unengaged and Unreached	Tajik	Sunni Islam
PG024637	Tajiks	Turkmenistan	5,900	Unengaged and Unreached	Tajik	Sunni Islam
PG047418	Tajiks	Canada	3,100	Unengaged and Unreached	Tajik	Sunni Islam
PG047175	Tajiks	United States	2,400	Unengaged and Unreached	Tajik	Sunni Islam

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