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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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JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film

2 films

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Bible Resources in Bashkort:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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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

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

Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
readMark 10:14b

Praise Jesus for the way He loves children, asking that many will learn the truth about Him and come to Him unhindered.

And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven."
readMatthew 16:17

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will abide in Him and have assurance that He is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
readEphesians 6:11

Pray that those God sends to cross cultures will put on the full armor of God so that they will be able to stand against the schemes of the enemy.

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

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5 people groups

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

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

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