non-literate

For example, the most widely used IQ test for non-literate peoples is the Raven's Progressive Matrices, a sort of visual pattern-finding test.

IQ and Living Standards, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Of course there are batteries of tests for humans, dogs, and amoebas; there are tests for literate and non-literate human beings, primates, fish, reptiles, birds, and insects.

Bunny and a Book 2008

The non-literate Gaelic oral bard Duncan Ban Macintyre composed lengthy complex poems without relying on a ready-made formulaic language and he premeditated and reworked his poems many times in his mind before they were finally written down by others.

Reinventing the Aztecs - part three Mexican history 2008

Since these murals are in the form of pictographs rather than complicated hieroglyphics, they could easily be read even by non-literate spectators.

Primary sources of Maya history - part five 2008

Since these murals are in the form of pictographs rather than complicated hieroglyphics, they could easily be read even by non-literate spectators.

Primary sources of Maya history - part five 2008

The non-literate Gaelic oral bard Duncan Ban Macintyre composed lengthy complex poems without relying on a ready-made formulaic language and he premeditated and reworked his poems many times in his mind before they were finally written down by others.

Reinventing the Aztecs - part three Mexican history 2008

In the history of traditional Celtic oral literature, bards and tradition-bearers often have a very clear idea of a fixed text, even it they themselves are non-literate or make little use of writing in their compositions.

Reinventing the Aztecs - part three Mexican history 2008

In the history of traditional Celtic oral literature, bards and tradition-bearers often have a very clear idea of a fixed text, even it they themselves are non-literate or make little use of writing in their compositions.

Reinventing the Aztecs - part three Mexican history 2008

God knows no one else has figured out a more effective means of keeping readership up in our non-literate era.

Josh Rosenblatt: Hoping to Compensate for Their Waning Influence, Alt-Weeklies Sacrifice Quality for Sensory Overload 2009

Afghanistan has known mostly war and oppression recently and is currently non-literate and dirt poor.

William Bradley: Our Man In Kabul: Backbiting On the Eve of the New Obama Strategy for Afghanistan 2009