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Language: Lhowa

Estimated Global Speakers

7,800

People Groups Speaking as Primary Language

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= Frontier peoples
People Group ▲	Country	Country Population	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Bahra Gaunle	Nepal	400	400	●	Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Loba	Bhutan	2,200	4,800		Buddhism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Loba	Nepal	2,600	4,800	●	Buddhism	1 ●	0.19 %	-1	1
Totals: 3						3 ●			3

* An estimate of the number of pioneer workers needed for initial church planting among unreached people groups by country. Estimates are calculated only for unreached people groups and are based on ratio of 1 worker-unit (single person or married couple) per 50,000 living in an unreached people group by country, or for example one team of four worker-units per 200,000 people. Some workers may already be onsite. Many more workers are needed beyond this initial estimate.

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People Group ▲	Country	Population	Global Population	Indigenous	Primary Religion	Progress Scale	% Christian Adherent	% Evangelical	Est. Workers Needed *
Bhote	Nepal	13,000	13,000	●	Buddhism	1 ●	1.40 %	-1	1
Brahmin	Nepal	3,272,000	63,125,000	●	Hinduism	0 ☀	0.00 %	-1	65
Brahmin Hill	Nepal	3,125,000	3,125,000	●	Hinduism	0 ☀	0.00 %	-1	63
Chhetri	Nepal	4,269,000	4,521,000	●	Hinduism	1 ●	0.14 %	-1	85
Gangai	Nepal	37,000	42,000	●	Hinduism	0 ☀	0.00 %	0.00 %	1
Gurung Ghaleg	Nepal	511,000	630,000	●	Buddhism	2 ●	5.00 %	-1	-1 -
Kami	Nepal	1,222,000	1,321,000	●	Hinduism	1 ●	1.56 %	-1	24
Magar	Nepal	1,835,000	2,187,000	●	Hinduism	1 ●	2.28 %	-1	37
Newah	Nepal	1,284,000	1,455,000	●	Hinduism	1 ●	0.91 %	-1	26
Rai	Nepal	602,000	733,000	●	Other / Small	2 ●	5.56 %	-1	-1 -
Rongkup	Nepal	3,900	82,000	●	Buddhism	1 ●	3.56 %	-1	1
Sarki	Nepal	365,000	395,000	●	Hinduism	1 ●	2.14 %	-1	7
Sherpa	Nepal	107,000	162,000	●	Buddhism	1 ●	4.22 %	-1	2
Tamang	Nepal	1,490,000	1,733,000	●	Buddhism	2 ●	6.60 %	-1	-1 -
Thakali	Nepal	11,000	13,000	●	Hinduism	1 ●	4.41 %	-1	1
Thakuri	Nepal	413,000	446,000	●	Hinduism	1 ●	1.57 %	-1	8
Tharu	Nepal	1,690,000	2,146,000	●	Hinduism	1 ●	3.41 %	-1	34
Totals: 17						14 ●			355

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Item	Value
Status	Living
Ethnologue Code	loy
Written	Yes
Bible Translation	Portions
Progress Scale	●

Language Alternate Names
Baragaon
Baragaun
Baragaunle (Baragaon)
Bhoti Gurung
Glo Skad
Lhopa
Lo Montang
Loba
Loke
Loket
Lopa
Lowa
Loyu
Mustangi
Upper Mustang (Loke)

Dialects
Baragaunle
Jharkot
Kagbeni
Loke
Mustang
Seke
Upper Mustang

Dialect Alternate Names
Lo
Lo Ke
Lo Montang
Loba
Lopa
Lopa: Lo
Lopawa
Lowa
Loyu
Mustangi

Bible Translation	Year / Status
Bible Portions	2009
New Testament	None Reported
Complete Bible	None Reported

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Format ▲	Resource
Audio Recordings	Audio Bible teaching (Global Recordings Network)
Audio Recordings	Oral Bible stories in Loke
General	Gospel resources links (Scripture Earth)

The Joshua Project Progress Scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language. The Progress Scale is derived from people group values for percent Evangelical and percent Christian Adherent.

Level	Description	Criteria
1	Unreached - Few evangelicals and few who identify as Christians. Little, if any, history of Christianity.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians <= 5%
2	Minimally reached - Few evangelicals, but significant number who identify as Christians.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
3	Superficially reached - Few evangelicals, but many who identify as Christians. In great need of spiritual renewal and commitment to biblical faith.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 50%
4	Partially reached - Evangelicals have a modest presence.	Evangelicals > 2% and <= 10%
5	Significantly reached - Evangelicals have a significant presence.	Evangelicals > 10%

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