Transcribed stops of one kind or another are not unknown. Aside from Arabic, the earlier transliteration system for Chinese included them, and we used them in English for a while to separate pronounced doubled vowels (as in coöperate, though the glottal stop was softened in such words to 'w' and 'y').
There are still glottal stops in English--at least the N. American variety. I pronounce the word glottal as [gla'l], button as [b^'n], etc.
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Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
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