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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Tajiks of Canada

The Tajiks of Canada, numbering approximately 3,100 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are described as citizens and permanent residents of Canada who have total or partial Tajik ancestry They are an Diaspora people, with Tajik as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Tajik people cluster of the Persian-Median Peoples. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Tajik is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash: Tajik

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Persian-Median Peoples
Country: Canada
People Cluster: Tajik
Primary Language(s): Tajik (tgk)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 3,100
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG047418

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

99%
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Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tajik
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Tajik Speakers

Media Resources in Tajik:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
JESUSView Film
MagdalenaView Film
MagdalenaView Film

4 films

Provided by the Jesus Film Project

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Bible Resources in Tajik:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1992, 1999 Institute for Bible Translation - Stockholm✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Tajik bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

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Explore Lostness and Next Steps

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 Tajiks:
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Pray specifically for the Tajiks of Canada

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
readRomans 11:22

Pray that God will transform those who persist in unbelief and, in His everlasting kindness, graft them into His family.

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
readMatthew 11:28-29

Please pray for them to lift their eyes to Jesus and find rest for their souls, lasting peace, and hope in Him.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
readPhilippians 3:20-21

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember their citizenship is in heaven.

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
readEphesians 1:13-14

Pray that God will work through believers near and far in bringing the lost to Himself, giving them what they need to do the task He has set before them, and helping them rest in Him because He has given them His Spirit.

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

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11 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▲NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
TajiksPG024018TajiksAfghanistan11,470,000Engaged yet UnreachedDariSunni Islam
TajiksPG024296TajiksKazakhstan34,500Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG024315TajiksUzbekistan1,730,000Engaged yet UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG024369TajiksKyrgyzstan65,500Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG024392TajiksPakistan1,885,000Engaged yet UnreachedDariSunni Islam
TajiksPG024529TajiksTajikistan7,410,000Engaged yet UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG024637TajiksTurkmenistan5,900Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG047175TajiksUnited States2,400Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG047418TajiksCanada3,100Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG050099TajiksRussian Federation1,240,000Engaged yet UnreachedTajikSunni Islam
TajiksPG050462TajiksGermany25,000Unengaged and UnreachedTajikSunni Islam

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