Analytic languages lack affixes and other types of inflectional and derivational morphology.
Vietnamese and Chinese are typical analytical languages. Here is the way Vietnamese expresses the Accordant function, expressed by a case ending in some languages and by the preposition by in English. Isolating languages also tend to use noun classifiers as part of their morphology. Classifiers are words which identify the noun class of a noun and are usually used with numbers and other quantifiers, perhaps as a marker of plurality. Their function is similar to that of head in English ten head of cattle .