Maths is a tool that is used to describe natural phenomena. It uses apriori reasoning. It is a tool TO describe.
So, then, math is a language, like language is a language. But it does more than describe things. It's also for replicating things. It describes how to replicate something. If you want to properly replicate something you have to use mathematics. If you want to build something you need mathematics. And if you want to pass on the knowledge of building something one also needs mathematics.
Literary language also describes things. But like math it also helps to replicate. For instance, it can describe how to replicate democracy. Mathematics can't describe or help replicate democracy. But literature can.
The thing is that literature along cannot replicate democracy, especially for those who have never practiced it. To have a democracy there has to be experience in doing it. If democracy was mathematical, then it would be easy to replicate in countries that have never experienced it.
The philosophy of math tries to distinguish between inherent principles and human constructs. It is generally agreed that mathematic itself is not a human construct but is rooted in nature. How about democracy, though?
Many think democracy is as natural as rain. But democracy needs human constructs to support. So democracy also appears to be a human construct. Democracy, then, is an interesting case where you need philosophy to replicate something that is supposed to be natural.
Gravity is the most democratic of the four forces in the universe. But we would not want that kind of democracy to apply to humans, hence the human constructs we have fitted it with.