Re: Latin -bs : just written or phonetic?

I simply don't understand why Latin did not standardize -ps instead of -bs, like -x and -s, or Greek -ps

JS Lopes

De: Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
Para: "cybalist@yahoogroups.com" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 22 de Julho de 2011 15:16
Assunto: Re: [tied] Latin -bs : just written or phonetic?

Well, depends on who done learned you Latin. They learned me Latin in Texas so ... Actually, I've been told that it was pronounced unvoiced, as is rex < *regs, so <urbs> = /urps/.

From: Joao S. Lopes <josimo70@...>
To: Cybalist <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:31 AM
Subject: [tied] Latin -bs : just written or phonetic?

What can be said about Latin nouns with bs-endings, like urbs, orbs, caelebs? The Nominative suffix -bs was just a written form of an older *-ps, influenced by oblique cases, or represent a <bz> spelling? PIE have consonantal stems ending in labials?

JS Lopes