Analytic language: In The Random House college Dictionary alytic language is "characterized by a relatively frequent use of function words (虚词), auxiliary verbs, and changes in word order to express syntactic relations rather than of inflected forms Chinese is typical analytic language.• Analytic language: • In The Random House College Dictionary, analytic language is “characterized by a relatively frequent use of function words (虚词), auxiliary verbs, and changes in word order to express syntactic relations, rather than of inflected forms”. • Chinese is typical analytic language