 After the war, Gottscheerish was forbidden.Today there are only a few speakers left, most of them in Moschnitze valley (Črmošnjiško-Poljanska dolina) between Kočevske Poljane and Črmošnjice, others today mainly know standard German.Gottscheerish and German, though autochthonous to Slovenia, have no official status and are not protected by law.