An analytic language is a type of language in which words are primarily used as separate, distinct units, and word order and auxiliary words (such as prepositions and articles) are used to convey grammatical relationships between the words in a sentence. Analytic languages tend to have relatively simple grammatical structures, with minimal inflectional morphology (changes in the form of words to indicate grammatical features). In contrast to synthetic languages, where words often change their forms to indicate tense, case, gender, and other grammatical features, analytic languages rely more on word order and auxiliary words to convey similar meanings. English is an example of an analytic language, as it uses word order and auxiliary verbs like “is,” “am,” and “are” to indicate tense and other grammatical aspects, without extensive word endings or inflections.