English Dictionary

protoliterate

adj

(of a culture) With written language that is in its early stages. / (of a person) In the early stages of learning to read and write.

The protoliterate society relied on oral traditions for communication.

意味（1）

(of a culture) With written language that is in its early stages.

Knowledge of a fact and its institutionalization in a society are quite distinct: murder, for example, was probably discovered in the Pliocene, but the institutionalization of murder in warfare does not seem to have occurred until the late Neolithic or the protoliterate period.

意味（2）

(of a person) In the early stages of learning to read and write.