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We harbor the notiron of a preliterary world, where ideas have yet to be born and we commune directly with reality.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2016

The development then of preliterary Latin under the influence of this systematizing, synthetical influence gave rise to literary Latin, while its independent growth more nearly in accordance with its original genius produced colloquial Latin.

From The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Abbott, Frank Frost

It is, in fact, impossible for us moderns, educated in a long literary tradition, to live our lives as naturally and naïvely as the unlettered of to-day, or the people of the preliterary geological epoch.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

The original document goes back to the middle of the fifth century B.C., and shows us some of the characteristics of preliterary Latin.

From The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Abbott, Frank Frost

Consequently, we are not surprised to find that the people's speech retained in a larger measure than literary Latin did those qualities which we noticed in preliterary Latin.

From The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Abbott, Frank Frost