This article states that in the formation of the norms of the Karakalpak literary language, especially the grammatical norm, not only units belonging to its own lexical layer, but also words imported from abroad, are of certain importance. At the same time, it is noted that it is very difficult to determine the linguistic source of a word and that a certain lexical unit has several connections with different languages, that is, the unit can be borrowed from the Karakalpak language through an intermediary language.