diff --git a/spacy/tests/serialize/test_serialize_tokenizer.py b/spacy/tests/serialize/test_serialize_tokenizer.py
index 6d4145504..de022a263 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/serialize/test_serialize_tokenizer.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/serialize/test_serialize_tokenizer.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from ...util import get_lang_class
+from ...tokenizer import Tokenizer
 from ..util import make_tempdir, assert_packed_msg_equal
 
 import pytest
@@ -13,6 +14,14 @@ def load_tokenizer(b):
     return tok
 
 
+def test_serialize_custom_tokenizer(en_vocab, en_tokenizer):
+    """Test that custom tokenizer with not all functions defined can be
+    serialized and deserialized correctly (see #2494)."""
+    tokenizer = Tokenizer(en_vocab, suffix_search=en_tokenizer.suffix_search)
+    tokenizer_bytes = tokenizer.to_bytes()
+    new_tokenizer = Tokenizer(en_vocab).from_bytes(tokenizer_bytes)
+
+
 @pytest.mark.skip(reason="Currently unreliable across platforms")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('text', ["I💜you", "they’re", "“hello”"])
 def test_serialize_tokenizer_roundtrip_bytes(en_tokenizer, text):