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adj. - Used of a society that has not developed writing.

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  • They write names and short slogans, which is the one thing I would expect nonliterate people not to do.
  • One answer may be an increasingly "nonliterate culture," as historian Diane Ravitch of New York University puts it.
  • The successfully Americanized mother stereotype posed as sure a threat to her children as did the nonliterate immigrant.
  • People from poor, oppressed, traditionally nonliterate Asian communities perform similarly to people from poor, oppressed, traditionally nonliterate African...
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