English is an international language used all over the world allowing people from different countries to

communicate for different needs. Words formerly distinguished as nouns or verbs by differences in their
forms are now often used as both nouns and verbs. One can speak, for example, of planning a table or
tabling a plan, booking a place or placing a book, lifting a thumb or thumbing a lift. On the other hand,
mathematics is the language of numbers, symbols notations and grammar. Using numbers and
mathematical symbols, one can write “words” and “sentences”. When appropriate, several “sentences”
together might form a “mathematical story” (solutions of exercises, problems, etc.). Mathematics has
also grammar – the mathematical logic which determines whether statements are valid or not. The
vocabulary of math draws from many different alphabets and includes symbols unique to math. A
mathematical equation may be stated in words to form a sentence that has a noun and a verb, just like a
sentence in a spoken language. For example: 3 + 5 = 8 could be stated as "Three added to five equals
eight." If you try to perform a sentence diagram on a mathematical sentence, you'll find infinitives,
conjunctions, adjectives, etc. As in other languages, the role played by a symbol depends on its context.

Thus English and mathematics as languages are similar. They both are languages of signs and symbols
which combine to “words” “sentences” and “stories”. These “stories” have a grammar, which is
universal and hence makes them languages of international communication.

Reference:

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1079019.pdf

https://www.britannica.com/topic/English-language

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