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Meaning of protoliterate | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. With written language that is in its early stages.
    not-comparable
  2. Of or related to the Protoliterate period.
    historical, not-comparable
  3. 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
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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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