protoliterate

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

With written language that is in its early stages.
not-comparable
Of or related to the Protoliterate period.
historical, not-comparable
In the early stages of learning to read and write.
not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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See also

protolithic protoliturgical protological protologistic protolunar protolytic

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