CLASSIFICATION OF MATH, LOGIC, AND MUSIC AS LANGUAGE

Language is best defined as something that is intended, creative and open-ended, and structured. Mathematics, logic, and music all fairly represent each of the requirements of language. Math, logic, and music are all intended, creative, and open-ended. If spoken and written languages were considered to be “natural languages,” then it would be fair to consider these three to be “unnatural languages” due to their different nature.

While they may not resemble natural languages externally, these unnatural languages are actually very similar when discussed further. For example, many college students majoring in the field of engineering and mathematics often describe their computer programming classes as nearly identical to a foreign language class, not only in the way it is taught, but also because learning to communicate with