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Analphabetic

noun
1.
An illiterate person who does not know the alphabet.  Synonym: analphabet.
adjective
1.
Relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic.
2.
Not alphabetic.  "Jesperson's system of phonetic transcription is analphabetic"
3.
Having little acquaintance with writing.  Synonym: unlettered.





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"Analphabetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... the King had forgotten how to read and write. So not a few of the Amirs of Sind were analphabetic and seemed rather proud of it: "a Baloch cannot write, but he always carries a signet-ring." I heard of an old English lady of the past generation in Northern Africa who openly declared "A Warrington shall never learn ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton


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