For example , Mandarin Chinese has many compound words , giving it a moderately high ratio of morphemes per word .
Since Mandarin Chinese has almost no inflectional affixes at all to convey grammatical relationships , Mandarin Chinese is a very analytic language .
For example , Mandarin Chinese has many compound words , giving it a moderately high ratio of morphemes per word , yet since it has almost no inflectional affixes at all to convey grammatical relationships , it is a very analytic language .