Talk:Gem Glyph/@comment-3518576-20170217021918

Is it possible that the Gem writing system could be a simple substitution cipher for another language?

Let's say that the language is Japanese (not a huge stretch, considering all the anime references in SU). If the Gem language only contains words that can be spelled out in hiragana.

For instance, the word alternate (as in, an alternative option to the standard) is kawari, spelled out as 代わり.

Now, if we look at the screenshot from Gem Heist...

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/steven-universe/images/7/7b/Gem_Heist_157.png/revision/latest?cb=20170210012318

We know that this is an alternate entrance, so the Japanese word for alternate would work here. We can hypothesize that the first symbol stands in for 代 (ka), the second for わ (wa), and the third for ri (り).