You can use keyboards and other input devices to enter text in other languages. To use another language in your document, you must first set up an input source (a language-specific keyboard or character palette, for example) for the language.
Pages also supports bidirectional text, so you can enter and edit text written from left to right (such as in English or Chinese) and from right to left (such as in Arabic or Hebrew) in the same document. You can use bidirectional text in paragraphs, shapes, and tables.
Note: You can use any Pages template to create a bidirectional document, but to see templates designed specifically for another language, you must set the primary language of your computer to that language (in System Preferences, click Language & Region, then set the language). When you create a new document, you see templates for that language.
To use another language in your document, first set up an input source (a language-specific keyboard or character palette, for example) for the language.
Open System Preferences on your Mac, click Keyboard, then click Input Sources.
System Preferences is in the Apple menu at the top-left corner of your screen.
Click 
at the bottom of the left column, choose the keyboard you want to enable, then click Add.
Select the checkbox next to “Show Input menu in menu bar.”
For more information about input sources, click Help in the menu at the top of your screen, then search for “input sources.”
If Pages is open, restart Pages so that it recognizes the source.
To switch to the other keyboard, click the Input menu on the right side of the menu bar, then choose a keyboard.
If you switch to a language written in a different direction from the current language, the insertion point moves to the side of the document used by the new language. For example, if you switch the input source from English to Hebrew, the insertion point moves to the right side of the document.
You can create a document that displays page numbers, and dates, time, and currency in tables and charts, using the formatting conventions of a specific language and region. You might want to do this if your document is to be used by people in a different country.
A document’s language and region determine whether commas or periods are used as decimal points in numbers, which currency symbol is used, how dates are formatted, and so on.
To create a document that uses the formatting of a different language, you must have more than one input source (for example, a second keyboard) added in System Preferences. For more information, see Set up a keyboard or other input source for another language.
Note: This setting affects only the document you’re creating.
Open Pages, then hold down the Option key and choose File > New (from the File menu at the top of your screen).
Click the Language pop-up menu in the bottom-left corner of the template chooser, then choose another language.
Double-click the template you want to use.
When you choose a new language, the template titles and text and some of the formatting controls change to reflect that language.
When you view a document that uses different language and formatting from your computer’s, a message near the bottom of the document indicates which formatting is used. To see examples of the formatting differences, click the language in the message.
After you create a document, you can change its language setting while the document is open. This setting determines how page numbers and numeric values in tables and charts are displayed—for example, whether commas or periods are used as decimal points in numbers, which currency symbol is used, how dates are formatted, and so on. It affects only the document you change it for.
Note: You can’t change this setting for a shared document.
Choose File > Advanced > Language & Region (from the File menu at the top of your screen).
In the dialog that appears, click the pop-up menus and choose a language and a region.
If you choose the first item in the Language pop-up menu (System [language]), you reset the document to the language and region of your computer. If you subsequently change your computer’s language setting, or if you open the document on a computer with a different language setting, the document’s language and region automatically change to match the computer’s. But if you share the document, all users see the document in your language and region.
Click OK.
After you change the document’s language and region, any new table and chart data you enter reflects the new language. For existing table and chart data, the language in dates (for example, month names) changes, but the punctuation in dates and the order of the day, month, and year don’t change. The punctuation in numbers (for example, the decimal point and thousands separator) does change.
The ruler and its tab stops always match the direction of a paragraph, so when you change the text direction for selected text, the ruler also changes.
Click in a paragraph or list, or select text in a paragraph or list.
In the Format 
sidebar, click the Style button near the top.
If the text is in a text box, table, or shape, first click the Text tab at the top of the sidebar, then click the Style button.
In the Alignment section, click 
.
The insertion point moves to the other side, and the paragraph direction changes.
Enter text, then press Return at the end of the paragraph.
The next paragraph continues in the same direction. To change its direction, click .
If you select multiple paragraphs with different text directions and then click , the paragraphs are formatted to match the first paragraph in the selection.
To learn how to type and edit bidirectional text, click the desktop to switch to the Finder, choose Help > Mac Help (from the Help menu at the top of your screen), then search for “bidirectional text.”