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  • s  used of a society that has not developed writing

  • The native people (collectively called the Powhatan) did not write it because their society was nonliterate, but it can be reconstructed from their actions, recorded by the English.
  • Here one can discover, for instance, the number of literate and nonliterate Christians in eight regions of the world or the fact that fully 605 million Christians must currently .
  • They want to re place the word "primitive" by "nonliterate.

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