One notable exception are inscriptions on so-called mordovka silver coins issued under Golden Horde rulers around the 14th century.

[12] The republican law of Mordovia N 19-3 issued in 1998[13] declares Moksha one of its state languages and regulates its usage in various spheres: in state bodies such as Mordovian Parliament, official documents and seals, education, mass-media, information about goods, geographical names, road signs.

The great native scholar Makar Evsevyev collected Moksha folk songs published in one volume in 1897.

Early in the Soviet period, social and political literature predominated among published works.

Since 1973, Moksha has been allowed to be used as the language of instruction for the first three grades of elementary school in rural areas, and as an elective subject.

From the early 2000s on, the policy goal has been to create a unified Mordvin standard language despite differences between Erzya and Moksha.

These have arisen from Proto-Mordvinic consonant clusters of a sonorant followed by a voiceless stop or affricate: *p, *t, *tʲ, *ts⁽ʲ⁾, *k. Before certain inflectional and derivational endings, devoicing continues to exist as a phonological process in Moksha.

Altogether the following devoicing processes apply: For example, before the nominative plural /-t⁽ʲ⁾/: Devoicing is, however, morphological rather than phonological, due to the loss of earlier voiceless stops from some consonant clusters, and due to the creation of new consonant clusters of voiced liquid + voiceless stop.

The 1993 spelling reform defines that /ə/ in the first (either stressed or unstressed) syllable must be written with the "hard" sign ⟨ъ⟩ (e.g. мъ́рдсемс mə́rdśəms "to return", formerly мрдсемс).

[26] Although the use of the Latin script for Moksha was officially approved by the CIK VCKNA (General Executive Committee of the All Union New Alphabet Central Committee) on June 25, 1932, it was never implemented.Like other Uralic languages, Moksha is an agglutinating language with elaborate systems of case-marking and conjugation, postpositions, no grammatical gender, and no articles.

Locative cases in Moksha express ideas that Indo-European languages such as English normally code by prepositions (in, at, towards, on, etc.).

As in other Uralic languages, locative cases in Moksha can be classified according to three criteria: the spatial position (interior, surface, or exterior), the motion status (stationary or moving), and within the latter, the direction of the movement (approaching or departing).

The table below shows these relationships schematically: [-sɑ] [-s] [stɑ] [nʲdʲi] [dɑ, tɑ] [vɑ, gɑ] [v, u, i]