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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Southwestern Tlaxiaco Mixtec of Mexico

The Southwestern Tlaxiaco Mixtec of Mexico, numbering approximately 15,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethno-linguistic subgroup of the Mixtec, an indigenous Mesoamerican people of Mexico and can also be known as Southeastern Ocotepec Mixtec, Mixteco de Santiago Nuyoo; Nuyoo Mixtec; Southeastern Ocotepec Mixtec, Mixteco de Sanitago Nuyoo, Nuyoo Mixtec, Nuyoo Mixteco, Mixteco de Santiago Nuyoo, Southeastern Ocotepec Mixtec. They are an Indigenous people, in the Mixtec people cluster of the Latin-Caribbean Americans affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Christianity - Folk Catholicism. They primarily speak Mixtec, Southwestern Tlaxiaco.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Mexico
People Cluster: Mixtec
Primary Language(s): Mixtec, Southwestern Tlaxiaco (meh)
Primary Religion(s): Christianity - Folk Catholicism
Population: 15,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG039126

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Christianity - Folk Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Christianity - Folk Catho… Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mixtec, Southwestern Tlaxiaco
Language Family: Otomanguean

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Mixtec, Southwestern Tlaxiaco Speakers

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Next steps for the Southwestern Tlaxiaco Mixtec

The Southwestern Tlaxiaco Mixtec are Unengaged and Unreached, 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.

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Next steps for the Southwestern Tlaxiaco Mixtec

The Southwestern Tlaxiaco Mixtec 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.

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Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Next steps for the Southwestern Tlaxiaco Mixtec

The Southwestern Tlaxiaco Mixtec 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.

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Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Southwestern Tlaxiaco Mixtec of Mexico

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
readGenesis 3:15

Pray that those without Christ will hear the words of Genesis 1-3 in their own language, and desire to know their Creator and His provision of salvation.

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!
readPsalm 57:11

Pray that the lost will learn about God's great love and faithfulness so that they might trust in Christ for their salvation.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 6:11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will lay down all evil desires, dying to sin and living for Him alone.

And the King will answer them, "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."
readMatthew 25:40

Ask God to raise up and send believers who will serve "the least of these" with compassion and energy because they know that in serving those in need, they are serving Christ.

Mixtec, Southwestern Tlaxiaco reported in the following countries (ROP3):

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