Gem Glyph analyses

This blog was created with the purpose of organizing and sharing analyses of my own about the background language/script present throughout the series of Steven Universe, script which was created by Steven Sugar. This blog is destined for those curious about the theme.

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Movie’s sentence 1 mostly broke-down

Hi, recently i’ve made some new work on the breaking down of GG, with a fresh mind and many new ideas. Chat GPT comes very handy when you get stuck in the thinking process. I don’t know if there are still people that even remember GG, nontheless i’ll share this first part for those who are still interested, because the internet deserves it (and don’t wanna be like S.Sugar who doesn’t). Hope to hook anyone else and not to scare anyone with the grammatical concepts. Opinions are welcome.

Expect more works in this format in the future, maybe...

The PDF file in question:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_GbTse2ADIDjrwrVxwvx1XzUMDfEwBLB/view?usp=sharing 

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Are you still working on anything gem glyph related or is this project officially retired?

I am still interested in gem glyphs, but we need more material to continue the decodification. I changed my objective: Instead of trying to crack the script that Steven Sugar made, I want to create one inspired by it, sharing its appearance, feel, and overall idea for an ideographic script. I haven't done much new brain work since I have school, and my interest in gem glyphs comes and goes.

I´ve been reading about the Ithkuil language by John Quijada, the most complicated language ever created, and I've found it very interesting, how his language has many common points with gem glyphs, but to an extreme. This book could facilitate the creation of a gem glyph-inspired script and/or bring a new perspective for decodificating brain work. If you're interested in linguistics, I can recommend it (even though it is quite impossible to learn it, I'm just into it because of its grammar)

POSTERIOR EDIT:

If I get to develop the script I mention into an extent which I feel comfortable, I won’t be like S.Sugar that doesn’t freaking share a little bit, neither give new material for some sort of game for the fans. This reminds me that I have made a phonetical syllabary script inspired on GG and partially to hiragana in order to make it more aesthetic; I hadn´’t thought of sharing and myght be sharing i sometime in the near future, just because.

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Many of what´s in here are theories, mostly mine. Also, a couple of theories came to my mind while I was making this file.

Hope you find this interesting and maybe try building new words and/or glyphs; maybe also use this as a reference if you get hooked on deciphering gem glyph for your own personal use, as I have.

This file was made with Paint Tool SAI 2, if you wanted to know.

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their respective locations on it, a pattern emerges. The symbol with the line to the right (◇I) would represent yellow, and yellow's color is the leftmost diamond. The one with the line to the top therefore would correspond to the bottom diamond, pink, which it does. This same pattern is consistant with White and Blue as well. I'm no pro when it comes to linguistic analysis, but I haven't noticed anyone mentioning this pattern before, so I figured it would be a good idea to share.

Nice observation, velvetpopsicle,

Not only could the diamond-tipe-of glyphs(◇) could be used to represent the diamonds (and they do in fact), in combination and adding a few variants, they could also be used to represent colors (i have a previous post where i showed this idea if you´re interested). In era 3 the diamond emblem inverted, that´s why in the storybook is used ◇I for yellow diamond, but back in era 2 and 1, |◇ was used instead, this pattern repeats for the other diamonds, as you already noticed.

Have a nice day!

(i´m also not a pro on linguistics, but when you´re interested, you learn along the way)

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This is my first Gem Glyph breakdown, more are to come, I hope someone else gets hooked in this just like i did. Please use this material wisely.

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“Alphabet” of pretty much, all Gem Glyph glyphs, of course there are more variations of the presented glyphs, but putting all the posible ones including all posible combinations myth have a big number of characters.

In this “alphabet” are all glyphs that have appeared throughout all the series, alongside many others that didn't show up, but their existence is totally possible.

By the other side, I tried my best at categorizing/organizing all glyphs, with establishing many “groups” based on “root” glyphs, by example, a group is the group where “E” is, having all the glyphs derived from “E” a common root, a glyph with 2 parallel lines with a vertical line connecting them.

I hope that this alphabet will replace all the existing gem glyph alphabets, because, for me they are either incomplete or the characters are bad-looking.

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This is a system for writing numbers that i've made inspired on the Gem Glyph script from Steven Universe.

I tried to cover the most quantity of colors, and if you try to write it, you write colors, not with colors, that is to say that you just need a pen to write it.

As you can see, i kept the colors that corresponds to each diamond and used CMYK color model for reference. With that base, i “fused” the diamonds in pairs in order to get RGB color model, and with that we got all colors we need to get all the existing colors. 

The rules are these:

-The diamond with the top line is meant to refer to shadness, when it is at the beginning of a word, means that is a lighter shade of the following colors, so then, when it is at the end of a “word”, means that the colors behind it are in a darker shade. It's important to remark that this glyph can only be located either at the beginning or at the end of a “word”. This is the most special color glyph.  

-There is a hierarchy for the order in which the color glyph are first and which last: 1.-White (if required), 2.-Yellow, Cyan or Magenta (only one of these can be present in a “word”), 3.-Blue, Green or Red (cannot repeat) and lastly, 4.- Black (If required).

-For writing only Black, you put the diamond with two parallel lines, one above and another below.

-For writing Grey, you just put white and the glyph of black (alone ver) 

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Text that appears at the end of the first Steven Universe Future episode, ” Little Homeschool ”, on Cherry Quartz´s class schedule.

First, a little aclaration, don´t trust on the last word of the first row, due to perspective, most of the word is unseen, so I had to be a little creative if I wanted to make the transcription look good.

When I saw this at the end of the episode the first two things that came to my mind was that this didn't look like a class schedule and, this looks a bit different from the stile from the movie, having not even a single common word.

The first point, well, the two most important characteristics of a class schedule are: The classes that the student is gonna take and the time of the day when you´re gonna assist them; perhaps, that the long words are classes and I also see some numbers that might refer to time, I have nothing sure here, maybe, Gemkind has a different system for scheduling stuff.

About the second thought, I think, that Steven Sugar made an iteration of the script between The Movie and Future, I mean, that the script had an ´update´, or there's also the chance that it looks different because it is talking about not-so-ordinary stuff.

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Transcriptions from the storybook that appears at the beginning of Steven Universe The Movie. Made by myself in the app aseprite, l tried to make as close from the original as possible, and l think l managed to do exactly that.

I suggest you to print it as a poster, which is something completely doable, if you really enjoyed the storybook “ Tale of Steven” 

More transcriptions with the same style are coming soon, btw, i really enjoy the process of making them.