Syntax

Emmanuel Laroche, who analysed the Lycian text of the Letoon trilingual, concluded that word order in Ruviri is more standard in its word order than its closest ancestor: Lycian. Sentences in plain text mostly have the structure:

ipc (initial particle cluster) - S (Subject) - O (direct Object) - V (Verb).

The verb immediately follows an "initial particle cluster", consisting of a more or less meaningless particle "se-" or "me-" (literally, 'and') followed by a series of up to three suffixes, often called emphatics which function as pronomia. Such is similar to Lycian. The subject, direct object, or indirect object of the sentence may thus proleptically be referred to in the initial particle cluster. As an example, the sentence "X built a house" might in Lycian be structured: "and-he-it / he-built / X / a-house". However, in Ruviri, this would be structured separately, and the indefinite article is simply marked as the absence of a case ending.