How come math is universal when language and alphabets are not?

Question

How come math is universal when language and alphabets are not?

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Answer 1

There’s nothing special about math. Different cultures have different words for the number two, and different symbols that represent it, just like different cultures have different words for the Sun, and different symbols that represent it.

The thing that’s universal is that each culture eventually discovers the number two and can learn some of the same things about it that other cultures have learned, just like each culture eventually discovers the Sun and can learn some of the same things about it that other cultures have learned.