definition:A synthetic language is “characterized by frequent and systematic used of inflected forms to express grammatical relationships”
examples: Latin, German, Old English
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特征:不用形态变化而用语序及虚词来表达语法关系
definition:A analytic language is “characterized by a relatively frequent use of function words, auxiliaries verbs, and changes in word order to express synthetic relations, rather than of infected forms”