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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Uzbeks of Turkmenistan

The Uzbeks of Turkmenistan, numbering approximately 588,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Turkic ethnolinguistic people of Central Asia whose identity emerged through a long process of interaction and integration among Turkic, Iranian, and Mongol populations in the region They are an Diaspora people, with Uzbek as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Uzbek people cluster of the Turkic Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam. They primarily speak Uzbek, Northern.

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Fast Facts*:

Affinity Group: Turkic Peoples
Country: Turkmenistan
People Cluster: Uzbek
Primary Language(s): Uzbek, Northern (uzn)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 588,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG024649
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

99%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Uzbek, Northern
Language Family: Turkic

100%
%
Uzbek, Northern Speakers

Media Resources in Uzbek, Northern:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

2 films

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Bible Resources in Uzbek, Northern:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Institute for Bible Translation, Sweden✓✓
Muqaddas Kitob, 2019✓✓✓

2 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Uzbek, Northern bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Uzbeks 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 Uzbeks:
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 Uzbeks of Turkmenistan

The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live forever!
readPsalm 22:26

Pray that the lost will feel a deep hunger for God, be drawn to Him in their affliction, and find lasting satisfaction and salvation in Him alone.

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
readLamentations 3:23-23

Pray that they will have hope in the Lord, knowing that His compassions never fails and that His mercies are new every morning.

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

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

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

Uzbek, Northern Across Countries (ROP3 - 107469) reported in the following countries:

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7 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
UzbeksPG047420UzbeksCanada4,200Engaged yet UnreachedUzbek, NorthernSunni Islam
UzbeksPG024649UzbeksTurkmenistan588,000Engaged yet UnreachedUzbek, NorthernSunni Islam
UzbeksPG024537UzbeksTajikistan2,530,000Engaged yet UnreachedUzbek, NorthernSunni Islam
UzbeksPG024376UzbeksKyrgyzstan1,025,000Engaged yet UnreachedUzbek, NorthernSunni Islam
UzbeksPG024331UzbeksKazakhstan576,000Engaged yet UnreachedUzbek, NorthernSunni Islam
UzbeksPG024324UzbeksUzbekistan28,470,000Engaged yet UnreachedUzbek, NorthernSunni Islam
UzbeksPG007419UzbeksChina12,500Unengaged and UnreachedUzbek, NorthernSunni Islam

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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