The language is commonly called
Pahari or
Himachali. Some speaker may even call it a dialect of
Dogri. The language has no official status. According to the
United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the language is of definitely endangered category, i.e. many Churahi children are not learning Churahi as their mother tongue any longer. The demand for the inclusion of 'Pahari (Himachali)' under the
Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, which is supposed to represent multiple
Pahari languages of Himachal Pradesh, had been made in the year 2010 by the state's Vidhan Sabha. There has been no positive progress on this matter since then, even though small organisations are striving to save the language. Due to political interest, the language is currently recorded as a dialect of Hindi, even when having a poor mutual intelligibility with it and having a higher mutual intelligibility with other recognised languages like Dogri and other Western
Pahari languages. == References ==