Make It Bun Dem... English or Jamaican Creole?

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howdy~ hoping to find someone familiar with Jamaican Creole to help me identify if Make It Bun Dem is a song in English with a thick accent or Jamaican Creole.

most of the song sounds like English with an accent, except for the breakdown (called Verse 1 on Genius), which sounds more like Jamaican Creole to me (tho I’m not at all familiar with the language)

some links that’ll help y’all:

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Reading the lyrics, it looks like 98% English. :wink:
We can set several languages so at least set English.

Then we discuss if we add Créole for the few other words.

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to my limited understanding, Jamaican Creole is closely related to English, which is why I’m hesitant to add English at the moment. that said, I could be mistaken (and how closely related, I’m not sure either)

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That depends on who you ask. Currently, I am reading linguist John McWhorters book “The Power of Babel” and he is quite adamant that Jamaican Creole is NOT English.

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I have also thought about this but never really lent much time towards it; I thought “why isn’t [Jamacian] Patois” a language