The Problematic of Arabic Emphatic & Guttural Segmental Sounds among Malay Students

The Arabic language is made up of a set emphatic and guttural consonants that exert phonological influence on adjacent segment sounds by moving the tongue's root back towards pharynx. This paper discusses pronunciation difficulties among Malaysian students who learn words. There are three approaches to account for production perception segmental namely speech perception, phonology phonetic. Data this research were obtained from two sources: Shehata's study (2018) observations mispronunciation which recorded. analysis also displays five aspects involving: substitution, addition, interference, omission vowel changes. A number opaque difficult phonemes including : / t ?/, ? , ?/ ð s? d? ð? /? ~ /q /, k /,that can be unfamiliar Malay students. concludes with findings indicated mostly phonetic rather than phonological. emphasis spread syllabic words or an entire word. has its implications other researchers in phonetics future theory. system needs more intensive highlights studies further researchers.