The Arabic letter Hamza. I hear it often at work but I don’t understand what a glottal stop is

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The Arabic letter Hamza. I hear it often at work but I don’t understand what a glottal stop is

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That’s not a glottal stop. I think it’s a glottal fricative. It behaves like h in hand. Alif is a glottal stop.

Does English really not use glottal stops? Do people just pronounce vowels at the beginning of the words smoothly? Like how do you pronounce words like “our”, “umbrella”, “apple”?

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