Aptitude observée chez tous les hommes à communiquer au moyen des langues. 

Human universal capacity for communication using linguistic signs, both in written and spoken form.

Langage : Saussure’s first English translator, Baskin, translates this as “human speech”. But other Saussure scholars, including Harris, suggest it should be translated as “human language” in general. Langage in this generalized sense, according to Saussure, is many-sided and heterogenous; it straddles many fields and kinds of phenomena–physical, physiological, psychological; both individual and social.