Ongaye Oda (PhD)
Lead researcher
Department: Policy Studies
Academic Rank: PhD
Employee ID: FAN
Office Location: Institute of Indigenous Studies, Wolaita Sodo
Research Staff
Biography
Personal information
Name: Ongaye Oda Orkaydo
Date of birth: 08/03/1976
Place of birth: Konso, Ethiopia
Nationality: Ethiopian
Sex: Male
Marital status: Married
Addresses: Institute of Indigenous Studies, Wolaita Sodo
Tel.: +251(0)934774603 (Mobile)
E-mail: ongayeoda@yahoo.com or ongayeforward@gmail.com
Name: Ongaye Oda Orkaydo
Date of birth: 08/03/1976
Place of birth: Konso, Ethiopia
Nationality: Ethiopian
Sex: Male
Marital status: Married
Addresses: Institute of Indigenous Studies, Wolaita Sodo
Tel.: +251(0)934774603 (Mobile)
E-mail: ongayeoda@yahoo.com or ongayeforward@gmail.com
Research Interests
Grammar writing (especially for Cushitic and Omotic languages)
Mother tongue education (planning, implementation and evaluation)
Indigenous peoples and human-environment relations
Social dynamics (especially, workforce organizations and house constructions)
Youth and gender issues
Mother tongue education (planning, implementation and evaluation)
Indigenous peoples and human-environment relations
Social dynamics (especially, workforce organizations and house constructions)
Youth and gender issues
Publications
Mous, Maarten and Ongaye Oda. 2009. The Semantics of Clause Linking in Konso. In Dixon, R.M.W and A. Y. Aikhenvald (eds), The Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-linguistic Typology. pp. 336-355. Oxford University Press
Ongaye Oda. 2010. The Spread of Punctual Derivation in Oromoid and Werizod Languages. In Crass, J and Ronny Meyer (eds.), Language Contact and Language Change in Ethiopia. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2013a. Conditional Clauses in Konso. Proceedings of the 5th Omo-Cush Conference. 197-209.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2013b. A Grammar of Konso. PhD thesis. LOT publications.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2013c. The category of number in Konso. In: Mengozzi, A. & M. Tosco (eds.), Sounds and Words through the Ages: Afroasiatic studies from Turin. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 253-266.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2014. A Grammar of K’abeena. Artistic Printing Enterprise.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2015. A Preliminary Study of the Practices of Personal naming in Konso. In Kervan-International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, no. 19. Pages 135-156.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Maarten Mous. 2016. Subject clitics in Konso. In Nordic Journal of African Studies, vol. 25 (1), 23-51.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2017a. A Grammar of Silt’e. Berana Printing Enterprise.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Maarten Mous. 2017b. The semantics of pluractionals and punctual in Konso (Cushitic, Ethiopia). Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. De Gruyter Mouton. V 38:2, 223-263.
Regassa Debelo A, Legesse A, Milstein T and Orkaydo O O. 2017. “Tree is Life”: The Rising of Dualism and the Declining of Mutualism among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia. In Frontiers in Communication. 2:7.
Befikadu Habtemariam, Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Yetebarek Hizekeal. 2019. Indigenous farming systems, state’s “modernizing” schemes, and emerging dynamics in Dirashe, southwest Ethiopia. Proceedings of the 8th National Research Conference, Dilla University. 165-186.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Mauro Tosco. 2020a. Morphological Similarity and Contact: Plurals, Punctuals and Pluractionals in Konso and Gawwada (Cushitic, Southwest-Ethiopia) Morphological Similarity and Contact: Plurals, Punctuals and Pluractionals in Konso and Gawwada (Cushitic, Southwest-Ethiopia). In Rainer Vossen & Christa König (eds.): Patterns of Linguistic Convergence in Africa. Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter. 27/28 (2015/16): 171-193. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2020b. The structure and interpretations of imperative in Konso. In Wal, G.J van der; Smits, H.J; Petrollino, S.; Nyst, V.A.S.; and Kossmann, M.G. (eds): Essays on African languages and linguistics: in honour of Maarten Mous. African Studies Centre Occasional Publication. 397-416.
Yetebarek Hizekeal Zekareas, Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Randi Marie Dahl Haugland. 2021a. The contested borderland economy along the Ethiopian Moyale town and its implications for sustainable local development. International Journal of Critical Accounting. Vol. 12, No. 3.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2021b. A grammar of Hoor (Arbore). Zak Printing.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2021c. T’ambaaro phonology. Kervan-International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies. V. 25(2). Pp. 31-62.
Tesfatsion Petros Golle, Yetebarek Hizekeal Zekareas, Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2021d. The practices and dynamics of Baalle, an indigenous governance system of Gedeo (Southwest Ethiopia). Kervan-International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies. V. 25(2). Pp. 127-152.
Tesfatsion Petros Golle, Ongaye Oda Orkaydo, Yetebarek Hizekeal Zekareas. 2022. The pragmatics of blessings in Gedeo (south Ethiopia). Kervan-International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies. V. 26(1). pp 69-98
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Maarten Mous. 2023. Konso. The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages. Ronny Mayer, Bedilu Wakjira and Zelalem Leyew (eds). pp 227-256.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2026. Aspects of the structure of spatial expressions in Konso.Azeb Amha, Anbessa Tefera, and Binyam Sisay Medisu (eds). Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, History and Culture (JAAL). V. 15 (1). Pp. 11-28.
14. References
1. Professor Maarten Mous
Professor of African linguistics
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)
Postbus 9515
2300 RA Leiden
Leiden, The Netherlands
E-mail: m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl
2. Professor Mauro Tosco
Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Turin,
Department of Humanities (StudiUm)
Via Giulia di Barolo 3A-10124
University of Turin,
Turin, Italy
E-mail: tosco.mauro@gmail.com
3. Professor Jon Abbink
Professor of Politics & Governance in Africa, Leiden University
Senior Researcher, African Studies Centre, Leiden
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel. + 31-71-527.3367
E-mail: abbink@ascleiden.nl
Ongaye Oda. 2010. The Spread of Punctual Derivation in Oromoid and Werizod Languages. In Crass, J and Ronny Meyer (eds.), Language Contact and Language Change in Ethiopia. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2013a. Conditional Clauses in Konso. Proceedings of the 5th Omo-Cush Conference. 197-209.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2013b. A Grammar of Konso. PhD thesis. LOT publications.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2013c. The category of number in Konso. In: Mengozzi, A. & M. Tosco (eds.), Sounds and Words through the Ages: Afroasiatic studies from Turin. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 253-266.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2014. A Grammar of K’abeena. Artistic Printing Enterprise.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2015. A Preliminary Study of the Practices of Personal naming in Konso. In Kervan-International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, no. 19. Pages 135-156.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Maarten Mous. 2016. Subject clitics in Konso. In Nordic Journal of African Studies, vol. 25 (1), 23-51.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2017a. A Grammar of Silt’e. Berana Printing Enterprise.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Maarten Mous. 2017b. The semantics of pluractionals and punctual in Konso (Cushitic, Ethiopia). Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. De Gruyter Mouton. V 38:2, 223-263.
Regassa Debelo A, Legesse A, Milstein T and Orkaydo O O. 2017. “Tree is Life”: The Rising of Dualism and the Declining of Mutualism among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia. In Frontiers in Communication. 2:7.
Befikadu Habtemariam, Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Yetebarek Hizekeal. 2019. Indigenous farming systems, state’s “modernizing” schemes, and emerging dynamics in Dirashe, southwest Ethiopia. Proceedings of the 8th National Research Conference, Dilla University. 165-186.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Mauro Tosco. 2020a. Morphological Similarity and Contact: Plurals, Punctuals and Pluractionals in Konso and Gawwada (Cushitic, Southwest-Ethiopia) Morphological Similarity and Contact: Plurals, Punctuals and Pluractionals in Konso and Gawwada (Cushitic, Southwest-Ethiopia). In Rainer Vossen & Christa König (eds.): Patterns of Linguistic Convergence in Africa. Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter. 27/28 (2015/16): 171-193. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2020b. The structure and interpretations of imperative in Konso. In Wal, G.J van der; Smits, H.J; Petrollino, S.; Nyst, V.A.S.; and Kossmann, M.G. (eds): Essays on African languages and linguistics: in honour of Maarten Mous. African Studies Centre Occasional Publication. 397-416.
Yetebarek Hizekeal Zekareas, Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Randi Marie Dahl Haugland. 2021a. The contested borderland economy along the Ethiopian Moyale town and its implications for sustainable local development. International Journal of Critical Accounting. Vol. 12, No. 3.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2021b. A grammar of Hoor (Arbore). Zak Printing.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2021c. T’ambaaro phonology. Kervan-International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies. V. 25(2). Pp. 31-62.
Tesfatsion Petros Golle, Yetebarek Hizekeal Zekareas, Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2021d. The practices and dynamics of Baalle, an indigenous governance system of Gedeo (Southwest Ethiopia). Kervan-International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies. V. 25(2). Pp. 127-152.
Tesfatsion Petros Golle, Ongaye Oda Orkaydo, Yetebarek Hizekeal Zekareas. 2022. The pragmatics of blessings in Gedeo (south Ethiopia). Kervan-International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies. V. 26(1). pp 69-98
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Maarten Mous. 2023. Konso. The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages. Ronny Mayer, Bedilu Wakjira and Zelalem Leyew (eds). pp 227-256.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. 2026. Aspects of the structure of spatial expressions in Konso.Azeb Amha, Anbessa Tefera, and Binyam Sisay Medisu (eds). Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, History and Culture (JAAL). V. 15 (1). Pp. 11-28.
14. References
1. Professor Maarten Mous
Professor of African linguistics
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)
Postbus 9515
2300 RA Leiden
Leiden, The Netherlands
E-mail: m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl
2. Professor Mauro Tosco
Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Turin,
Department of Humanities (StudiUm)
Via Giulia di Barolo 3A-10124
University of Turin,
Turin, Italy
E-mail: tosco.mauro@gmail.com
3. Professor Jon Abbink
Professor of Politics & Governance in Africa, Leiden University
Senior Researcher, African Studies Centre, Leiden
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB Leiden
The Netherlands
Tel. + 31-71-527.3367
E-mail: abbink@ascleiden.nl