It is more commonly spoken in the Himachal Pradesh, Shimla (Simla) and Solan districts.

It is considered to be highly endangered as the number of people speaking it is constantly going down.

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.

[9] There has been no positive progress on this matter since then even when small organisations strive to save the language and demand it.

[10] Due to political interest, the language is currently recorded as a dialect of Hindi, even when having a poor mutual intelligibility with it.