preliterate
adjective
lacking a written language; nonliterate.
preliteracy
-
a word derived from
preliterate.
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Linear B disappeared, and Greece returned to an age of preliteracy.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
