Datapoint Berbice Dutch/Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun

Berbice Dutch uses a suffix, -apu, to mark plural number. Despite its historical derivation from a pronominal plural form with human reference in the substrate (Kouwenberg forthc.), it has not retained the pronominal characteristics of its etymon.
Note that the 3PL pronoun in Berbice Dutch is eni, derived from a similar pronoun in the substrate.


No nominal plural word

Very certain