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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Ixil of Guatemala

The Ixil of Guatemala, numbering approximately 145,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Maya people of the Cuchumatanes highlands' Ixil Triangle municipalities, subjected during the 1980s civil war to a campaign a UN-backed commission and Guatemalan courts later ruled to be genocide, which razed most Ixil villages. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Ixil is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Ixil

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Guatemala
People Cluster: Central American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Ixil (ixl)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 145,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG024727
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Pray for the Ixil of Guatemala

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Ixil
Language Family: Mayan

86%
%
Ixil Speakers

Media Resources in Ixil:

Films:
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1 film

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Bible Resources in Ixil:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2016 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc✓✓
2008 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc.✓✓
Asociación Educativa y Cultural Maya✓
2001 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc.✓✓

4 entries

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Ixil bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Ixil 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 Ixil:
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 Ixil of Guatemala

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.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
readActs 18:8

Pray that rulers and leaders will access the gospel, respond in faith, and be baptized, uniting with Christ and His Church, and influence others to follow Him.

Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
readPsalm 111:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will praise the Lord with their whole heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
readPsalm 96:4

Pray that God will raise up believers to declare His glory among the lost, so that they may know that He is great and greatly to be praised, that He is exalted above all gods.

Ixil, San Juan Cotzal Across Countries (ROP3 - 108608) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▼CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
IxilPG024727IxilGuatemala145,000No Longer UnreachedIxilEthnoreligion

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