[4] Alternative names for the language attested at the start of the 20th century are Barāzai and Jāfaraki.

[6] It is likely to have been formerly spoken over a wider area, which has been reduced with the expansion of Pashto from the north and Balochi from the south-east.

[9] The earlier suggestion that Khetrani might be a remnant of a Dardic language[10] has been found "difficult to substantiate" by more detailed recent research.

It is certain that the whole of the triangular block of hill now occupied by the Marris was in the possession of Indian tribes before the Baloch invasion.

The Khetrans however between the Afghan and the Baloch have preserved their identity and their peculiar Indian dialect to the present day.