Protoliterate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Protoliterate is an adjective meaning (of a culture) With written language that is in its early stages.
Meaning
(of a culture) With written language that is in its early stages.
More Meanings
- (of a person) In the early stages of learning to read and write.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- proto-literate
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include protolithic, protohistorical, protohistoric, protogenic, protochronist, preliterate.
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