diff --git a/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/analysis/IndicesAnalysisService.java b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/analysis/IndicesAnalysisService.java
index d67ebbabab33d..469b37b149491 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/analysis/IndicesAnalysisService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/analysis/IndicesAnalysisService.java
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.shingle.ShingleFilter;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.snowball.SnowballAnalyzer;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.snowball.SnowballFilter;
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.ClassicAnalyzer;
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.ClassicTokenizer;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardAnalyzer;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardFilter;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardTokenizer;
@@ -116,6 +118,7 @@ public IndicesAnalysisService(Settings settings) {
         analyzerProviderFactories.put("stop", new PreBuiltAnalyzerProviderFactory("stop", AnalyzerScope.INDICES, new StopAnalyzer(Lucene.ANALYZER_VERSION)));
         analyzerProviderFactories.put("whitespace", new PreBuiltAnalyzerProviderFactory("whitespace", AnalyzerScope.INDICES, new WhitespaceAnalyzer(Lucene.ANALYZER_VERSION)));
         analyzerProviderFactories.put("simple", new PreBuiltAnalyzerProviderFactory("simple", AnalyzerScope.INDICES, new SimpleAnalyzer(Lucene.ANALYZER_VERSION)));
+        analyzerProviderFactories.put("classic", new PreBuiltAnalyzerProviderFactory("classic", AnalyzerScope.INDICES, new ClassicAnalyzer(Lucene.ANALYZER_VERSION)));
 
         // extended ones
         analyzerProviderFactories.put("pattern", new PreBuiltAnalyzerProviderFactory("pattern", AnalyzerScope.INDICES, new PatternAnalyzer(Lucene.ANALYZER_VERSION, Regex.compile("\\W+" /*PatternAnalyzer.NON_WORD_PATTERN*/, null), true, StopAnalyzer.ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS_SET)));
@@ -166,6 +169,18 @@ public Tokenizer create(Reader reader) {
             }
         }));
 
+        tokenizerFactories.put("classic", new PreBuiltTokenizerFactoryFactory(new TokenizerFactory() {
+            @Override
+            public String name() {
+                return "classic";
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public Tokenizer create(Reader reader) {
+                return new ClassicTokenizer(Lucene.ANALYZER_VERSION, reader);
+            }
+        }));
+
         tokenizerFactories.put("uax_url_email", new PreBuiltTokenizerFactoryFactory(new TokenizerFactory() {
             @Override
             public String name() {