noun
analytic language
Linguistic term for a language that relies on word order and particles rather than inflection to express grammatical relationships.
中国語は分析的言語の代表例とされる。
Chinese is considered a typical example of an analytic language.
Opposite type: synthetic language, which uses inflectional morphology to express grammatical relationships.
Compound of 分析的 (analytic) + 言語 (language), a calque of the English term 'analytic language'.