The app was created using a Barngarla dictionary written in 1844 by German Lutheran Christian missionary Clamor Wilhelm Schurmann "in order to disconnect 'heathens' from their culture and to show them his light", Professor Zuckermann said. "Now technology is being used to empower Aboriginal people and to allow them to reconnect with their past." It was killed through colonisation, and the Stolen Generations, the technology of ships and black cars ," Professor Zuckermann said. "The 1960s marked the end of spoken Barngarla. He worked with Ngunnawal man Cheyne Halloran and the Barngarla Language Advisory Committee to produce an application that translates the Indigenous language to English and vice versa. The Barngarla dictionary app allows Aboriginal people to reconnect with their past.
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