BEFORE VOTING: Note that approximately 50% of the languages + transcriptions use Y for [y] and 50% for [j]. [j]: Y is very strongly associated with [j] and is used in various languages incluiding English for this sound, but it is neither the phonetic symbol nor the letter used in most Latin-based transcriptions and J is used for [j] in most germanic languages (not for English). [y]: This is the phonetic symbol for that sound and looks very much like the Cyrillic letter Ү, but there is another character for this sound that is easy to type on a keyboard: Ü*. (*note that if [y] is the sound assigned to Y, then Ü will be used for [ʏ]—the most common sound for Ü in German, even if not the primary one—and J will be used for [j]). Most germanic languages (like Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, but not for English) + Finnish use Y for [y].
