I’m a Tunisian wondering what happened to the variety of Vulgar Latin spoken in Roman Africa and its speakers in modern-day Tunisia.

After the Arab Invasion of the Maghreb, African Romance couldn’t just have disappeared, right? Why is there so little known about the process of islamization and arabization after the conquest of Carthage in 698?

I must say that modern day Tunisian Arabic does have something Italian going on in its intonation and pronunciation.