I look at language as a very flexible tool we use to describe the world around us.  Consider that different spoken languages evolved locally alongside different cultures (and therefore had different requirements), and you'll understand why some languages are better at describing certain things than others (eg, there may be 1 Chinese word that describes something that takes 10 English words to describe the same thing).<br><br>So in that sense, mathematics is simply another type of language we constructed to better describe the things that spoken language may have trouble describing.