Hyruleans

Hyruleans are the ancient inhabitants of the land of Hyrule. It is thought that they were a separate race to the more modern hylians seen in the games. A prominent feature of the Hyruleans are the pointed ears, which was believed to enable them to hear the will of the Gods.

Very little is explained of the ancient Hyruleans, they had a complex understanding of magic past the grasp of most common hylians in-game, and posessed an entirely different language only translatable through the book of Mudora, which was lost after A Link to the Past, this is most likely the language being spoken by the guardians in The Wind Waker.

The hylian people now seem to face a drawn out extinction, left to waste away on the tops of mountains in sparse handfuls, unless something dramatic is coming in a still unforseen game.