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{{Infobox language
| name             = Churahi
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| nativename       = 𑚏𑚰𑚤𑚭𑚩𑚯
| states           = Himachal Pradesh
| region           = Chaurah, Saluni
| fam2             = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
| fam3             = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
| fam4             = [[North-Western Indo-Aryan languages|North-Western]]
| fam5             = [[Western Pahari]]
| glotto           = chur1258
| glottoname       = Churahi
| lc1              = cdj
| dia1             = Churahi
| image            = churahi.png
| imagecaption     = Churahi written in Takri Script
| speakers         = 75,552; total count conflates with [[Pahari]] and [[Hindi]]
}}

Churahi ([[Takri script|Takri]]: 𑚏𑚰𑚤𑚭𑚩𑚯) is a language spoken in the Chaurah and Saluni Tehsil of [[Chamba district|Chamba]] district in [[Himachal Pradesh]]. The language is considered vulnerable.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Endangered Language Churahi|url=http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/1628|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref>

== Script ==
The native script of the language is [[Takri script|Takri]] script. 

== Status ==
The language is commonly called [[Pahari language|Pahari]] or [[Western Pahari|Himachali]]. Some speaker may even call it a dialect of [[Dogri language|Dogri]]. The language has no official status. According to the [[UNESCO|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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Endangered languages|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/apr/15/language-extinct-endangered|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref>

The demand for the inclusion of 'Pahari (Himachali)' under the Eight 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.<ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=|title=Pahari Inclusion|work=Zee News|url=https://zeenews.india.com/news/himachal-pradesh/hp-for-inclusion-of-pahari-language-in-eighth-schedule_615857.html|url-status=live|access-date=}}</ref> There has been no positive progress on this matter since then even when small organisations are taking upto themselves to save the language and demanding it.<ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=|title=Pahari Inclusion|work=The Statesman|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/cities/demand-for-pahari-as-language-in-8th-schedule-of-constitution-1479046804.html|url-status=live|access-date=}}</ref> Due to political interest, the language is currently recorded as a dialect of Hindi,<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Indian Language Census|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language-2011/Statement-1.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref> even when having a poor mutual intelligibility with it and having a higher mutual intelligibility with other recognised languages like Dogri and other Western [[Western Pahari|Pahari]] languages.

<nowiki>[[Category:Pahari languages]]</nowiki>

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