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Language: Piraha

Population of People Groups Speaking

400

People Groups Speaking as Primary Language

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Photo	People Group ▲	Country	Population	Progress Scale
	Mura-Piraha	Brazil	400	0
	Totals: 1			1 ◼︎ (1 ✸︎)

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Photo	People Group ▲	Country	Population	Progress Scale
	Mura	Brazil	11,000	4
	Totals: 1			0 ◼︎ (0 ✸︎)

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Item	Value
Status	Living
Language Code	myp
Written	Yes
Bible Translation	Portions

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Language Alternate Names
Bohura
Mra-Pirah
Mura
Múra
Mura-Piraha
Múra-Pirahã
Pirahán
Xapaitíiso

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Dialect Alternate Names

Bible Translation	Year / Status
Bible Portions	1987
New Testament	None Reported
Complete Bible	None Reported

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

Level	Description	Criteria
1a	Unreached (Frontier) - Less than 1 in 1,000 (0.1%) identify as Christians in any way. ✸︎	Evangelicals <=0.1% Professing Christians <=0.1%
1b	Unreached (non-Frontier) - Few evangelicals and little, if any, history of Christianity. ◼︎	Evangelicals >0.1% and <=2% Professing Christians >0.1% and <=5%
1	Unreached (All) - 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 to moderate presence.	Evangelicals > 2% and <= 10%
5	Significantly reached - Evangelicals have a significant presence.	Evangelicals > 10%

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