Jatki, Jadgali, and other related terms have sometimes been used to refer to one or another of the Indo-Aryan languages spoken in Balochistan and neighbouring parts of Sindh and South Punjab.^{[citation needed]}

• Jatki was used in 19th-century British sources for what would later be called Saraiki, as well as for Khetrani.^{[1][need quotation to verify]} Jaṭkī is also attested in local use in Balochistan as a name for these two languages as well as for Sindhi.^[2] Jataki was used by 19th-century British writer Richard Francis Burton for a variety of the Saraiki language.^{[3][need quotation to verify]}
• Jakati is a possibly spurious name used in the Ethnologue encyclopedia for either a Romani (Gypsies) variety of Ukraine, or for the Inku language of Afghanistan.^[4]
• Jaḍgālī (IPA: [dʒaɖɡaːliː]) is the common name for the Jadgali language spoken in Iranian Balochistan and western parts of Pakistani Balochistan.^{[5][need quotation to verify]} Related to the above are Jagdālī (جگدالی),^[6] and Jaghdali,^[7] in use among the Balochi speakers of Dera Ghazi Khan District of southwestern Punjab for the Saraiki variety spoken there. The Arabic terms az-Zighālī and az-Zijālī refer to speakers of the Jadgali language in the diaspora in Oman and the United Arab Emirates.^{[8][need quotation to verify]}
• Jatki is a dialect of Punjabi spoken in the Pakistani districts of Jhang.* ^{[9][better source needed]} It is an intermediate language between Punjabi and Saraiki. It is a combination of the Shahpuri dialect, Jhangvi dialect and the Dhani dialect. the glottolog codes for these dialects are:
  • shah1266^[10]
  • jatki1238 ^[11]
  • jang1253^[12]
  • dhan1272^[13]