Referee Ron Blum responded to the Steelers' claim that they were refused a timeout by saying, "I wasn't aware that they were, but one of my co-officials said that the request came after the ball was snapped".
When the time came, however, Hindi could not be declared the sole national language; English remains a co-official language.
Although not named a co-official language of Asturias, Bable (Asturian) is protected and promoted under the community's statutes, as are local Aragonese dialects in Aragon.
After Basque gained co-official status in a small area of northern Spain, activists started drafting rigid new policies to reverse the language's decline.
The official language is Castilian, but roughly a quarter of the country also speaks one of the three main co-official regional languages – Catalan, Basque or Galician.
With certain modifications, the language Aasen fostered (which bears the most resemblance to Norway's western dialects) rapidly gained national prominence and eventually achieved co-official status with Dano-Norwegian.
There have been high-level calls in several Asian nations for English to be made a co-official language: from South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun last month, Taiwan's president Chen Shuinbian in 2002 and Japan's late premier Keizo Obuchi in 2000.
The statutes of 6 of the 17 autonomous communities stipulate the following "co-official" languages: Catalan in Catalonia and in the Balearic Islands, Valencian in Valencia, Galician (Gallego) in Galicia, and Euskera (Basque) in the Basque Country and in some Euskera-speaking territories of Navarra.
For the 400,000 Brits who visit every year, Malta is an easy country, perhaps too easy: it has plenty of sun and sea, English is a co-official language, driving is on the left, you find British dailies on the newsstands, and some supermarkets stock Marmite.
In Ontario, French has some legal status, but is not fully co-official.
Subsequently, Bengali was given co-official status in the three Bengali-majority districts of Assam.
