According to the official list by
Mir Ahmad Yar, the last
Khan of Kalat, Mengal was originally one of the
Jaṭṭ tribes inhabiting Balochistan. In the
Balochi language, plurals of substantives and collective nouns are formed, generally, by adding the suffix "gal" to the noun itself, tribes like Jadgal, Kurdgal are formed in this manner, similarly the term Mengal (Meng-gal,) merely denotes the Meng (Ming, or Men, or Min) name of a tribe and the suffix "gal" means (Speech and group), thus meaning (the group of Mins). ==Tribal area==