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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Bashkir of Uzbekistan

The Bashkir of Uzbekistan, numbering approximately 64,500 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are described as a Turkic-speaking people indigenous to Russia's southern Ural region. Centered in Bashkortostan, they share a common language, homeland, and cultural heritage shaped by pastoral traditions, agriculture, and Sunni Islam They are an Diaspora people, with Bashkir as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Ural-Siberian people cluster of the Turkic Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam. They primarily speak Bashkort.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Turkic Peoples
Country: Uzbekistan
People Cluster: Ural-Siberian
Primary Language(s): Bashkort (bak)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 64,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG024658
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

72%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Bashkort
Language Family: Turkic

100%
%
Bashkort Speakers

Media Resources in Bashkort:

Films:
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MagdalenaView Film

2 films

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Bible Resources in Bashkort:

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1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Bashkort bible at Bible.com

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Bashkir:
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Pray specifically for the Bashkir of Uzbekistan

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
readEphesians 2:4-5

Pray that those who have not yet received new life will be made alive together with Christ, saved by grace and raised up with Him to newness of life.

Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the LORD; exult before him!
readPsalm 68:4

Pray that many will come to faith in Christ and share the gospel with others so that His salvation will be known among all nations.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
readJohn 10:29

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will rejoice as they remember that they can never lose their salvation

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
read2 Corinthians 1:8-9

Pray that as people hear and believe the gospel, they will be faithful as they walk through trials and will have an opportunity to be a witness to others in this people group of the goodness of God.

Bashkir Across Countries (ROP3 - 101100) reported in the following countries:

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5 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountry ▼PopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
BashkirPG024658BashkirUzbekistan64,500Unengaged and UnreachedBashkortSunni Islam
BashkirPG024607BashkirTurkmenistan8,700Unengaged and UnreachedBashkortSunni Islam
BashkirPG024416BashkirRussian Federation1,700,000Engaged yet UnreachedBashkortSunni Islam
BashkirPG024336BashkirKyrgyzstan375Unengaged and UnreachedBashkortSunni Islam
BashkirPG024255BashkirKazakhstan31,000Unengaged and UnreachedBashkortSunni Islam

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