A tradition of secular works of literature in the modern form of the language dates back to the 19th century.

Syktyvkardin is spoken in the region of Syktyvkar and forms the model for the generic standard dialect of the language.

In the 1930s, during the Latinisation in the Soviet Union, Komi was briefly written with a version of the Latin script.

U u A a Letters particular to the Molodtsov alphabet include ԁ, ԃ, ԅ, ԇ, ԉ, ԋ, ԍ, ԏ, most of which represent palatalized consonants.

There is noticeable positional allophony, depending on the surrounding consonants, however no allophone overlaps with another vowel phoneme.

[11] Most modern texts, however, possess a subject-verb-object word order, due to heavy Russian language influence and the resulting calques.