Re: ELVES: was: Elliott's peoplesT

Quoting Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>:
> Later changes involved the lenition of stops surrounded by vowels and
> liquids,
> turning p, t, c into b, d, g and b, d, g into bh, dh, gh (/f, D, G/) of
> which gh
> was later weakened to j before vowels and deleted elsewhere.
/b/ changing to /f/ looks really odd; one'd expect /B/ or /v/. Is it a typo
(seeing that "f" is just above "v" on a Qwerty), and if not, is there any
particular explanation?

                                                              Andreas