Question: What language was used by the people of the British Isles under the empire that, in the 1st Century B.C., acquired the sunniest country in the world as a colony?

<P0-S0> At the time of the Roman Empire, about two thousand years ago, various tribes, which spoke Celtic dialects of the Insular Celtic group, were inhabiting the islands. <P0-S1> The Romans expanded their civilisation to control southern Great Britain but were impeded in advancing any further, building Hadrian's Wall to mark the northern frontier of their empire in 122 AD. <P0-S2> At that time, Ireland was populated by a people known as Hiberni, the northern third or so of Great Britain by a people known as Picts and the southern two thirds by Britons. <SEP> <P1-S0> In 332 BC, Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great conquered Egypt as he toppled the Achaemenids and established the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Kingdom, whose first ruler was one of Alexander's former generals, Ptolemy I Soter. <P1-S1> The Ptolemies had to fight native rebellions and were involved in foreign and civil wars that led to the decline of the kingdom and its final annexation by Rome. <P1-S2> The death of Cleopatra ended the nominal independence of Egypt resulting in Egypt becoming one of the provinces of the Roman Empire. <SEP> <P2-S0> Most of Egypt's rain falls in the winter months. <P2-S1> South of Cairo, rainfall averages only around 2 to 5 mm (0.1 to 0.2 in) per year and at intervals of many years. <P2-S2> On a very thin strip of the northern coast the rainfall can be as high as 410 mm (16.1 in), mostly between October and March. <P2-S3> Snow falls on Sinai's mountains and some of the north coastal cities such as Damietta, Baltim, Sidi Barrany, etc. <P2-S4> and rarely in Alexandria. <P2-S5> A very small amount of snow fell on Cairo on 13 December 2013, the first time Cairo received snowfall in many decades. <P2-S6> Frost is also known in mid-Sinai and mid-Egypt. <P2-S7> Egypt is the driest and the sunniest country in the world, and most of its land surface is desert. <SEP> <P3-S0> some women in the isle of man (geographically part of the british isles but not part of the united kingdom) gained the right to vote in 1881. though it did not achieve nationhood until 1907, the colony of new zealand was the first self - governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in, but not to stand for, parliamentary elections in 1893, followed closely by the colony of south australia in 1894 (which, unlike new zealand, allowed women to stand for parliament). <P3-S1> in sweden, conditional women's suffrage was granted during the age of liberty between 1718 and 1772. <SEP> <P4-S0> early civilisations in myanmar included the tibeto-burman-speaking pyu city-states in upper burma and the mon kingdoms in lower burma. <P4-S1> in the 9th century, the bamar people entered the upper irrawaddy valley and, following the establishment of the pagan kingdom in the 1050s, the burmese language, culture and theravada buddhism slowly became dominant in the country. <P4-S2> the pagan kingdom fell due to the mongol invasions and several warring states emerged. <P4-S3> in the 16th century, reunified by the taungoo dynasty, the country was for a brief period the largest empire in the history of southeast asia. <P4-S4> the early 19th century konbaung dynasty ruled over an area that included modern myanmar and briefly controlled manipur and assam as well. <P4-S5> the british conquered myanmar after three anglo-burmese wars in the 19th century and the country became a british colony. <P4-S6> myanmar became an independent nation in 1948, initially as a democratic nation and then, following a coup d'état in 1962, a military dictatorship.