nonliterate

• 形容一个人或社会不使用书面语言、没有文字系统。也可指缺乏读写能力的。

Describes a person or society that does not use a written language; lacking a system of writing.

1. Pre-literate societyC1formal

   Describes a society or culture that has not yet developed a system of writing.

   无文字的

   • Anthropologists study nonliterate societies to understand early human communication.
   • The tribe remained nonliterate until contact with modern civilization.
   • Nonliterate cultures often rely on oral traditions to pass down knowledge.

   同义词oralpreliterate

   反义词literate