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Words are weak vehicles of meaning and a science of words can be useful to understand the limitations. The below article is quite good.
There are theories about the linguistic dynamics of analytic-synthetic: contact between people with languages with different syntax appears to foster analyticity; isolation the opposite.

Besides, written Finnish is a reformed language, and spoken Finnish is far more analytical than the formal language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language