Ongaye Oda Orkaydo

Ongaye Oda Orkaydo received his BA and MA in Linguistics from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He also received his PhD in Linguistics from Leiden University, the Netherlands, in 2013. His research interests include, but not limited to, grammar writing, dictionary making, mother tongue education (planning, implementation and evaluation), interdisciplinary research activities that involve language and communication (anthropology, sociology, development studies, environmental studies, gender studies, etc.). He has published three books: A Grammar of Konso (2013), A Grammar of K’abeena (2014), and A Grammar of Silt’e (2017). He has also (co-)published several articles, and carried out research activities on T’ambaro and Gedeo languages. After his PhD, he won a visiting fellowship from the University of Turin, Italy, in 2016. He is a full time academic staff member at Dilla University, Ethiopia, teaching courses on Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature, and conducting research activities in the Institute of Indigenous Studies. Furthermore, he is a member of the Scientific Board of Keravan, International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, University of Turin.